An abandoned lamb is carried by a herdsman on the Sensen Spring Pasture in Qiaga Township of Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on February 25, 2016. As spring comes, herdsmen living on the 5,000-meter-high Sensen Spring Pasture in Qiaga Township of Damxung County are busy with delivering Tibetan lambs. #

Servicemen of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special forces unit take part in a presentation during Maslenitsa celebrations at their base in Minsk, Belarus, on February 28, 2016. Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter celebrated with pancake eating and shows of strength. #

People burn a straw-wood-and-cloth effigy representing Mother Winter on March 13, 2016, close to the city of Baikonur in celebration of Maslenitsa, a farewell ceremony to winter. #

People take pictures of the burning symbol of spring, which looks like a brown bear emerging from his den. The bear was created by Hungarian artist Gabor Miklós Szoke for the festival in Gorky Park during a celebration of Maslenitsa, or Shrovetide in Moscow, Russia, on March 13, 2016, with the building of the National Defense Center of Russian Defense Ministry in the background. #

A man climbs up a 9-meter-high wooden pole to get a prize during Maslenitsa celebrations at the Bobrovy Log ski resort in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on March 13, 2016. #

A couple walks their dog and take pictures on a road after heavy snowfall between Las Machorras and the ski resort of Lunada, near Espinosa de los Monteros, in the northern province of Burgos, Spain, on March 13, 2016. #

Cattle walk through wildflowers near California State Route 223 on March 4, 2016, west of Tehachapi, California. Despite hopes that the major El Niño effect would bring drought-busting rains to southern California, the storms have been missing the region, delivering only half the rain of a normal year. After a brief period of heavy rain in January, Southern California experienced one of the hottest Februarys ever recorded, prompting early scenic wildflower blooms in several desert and foothill regions. #