The fourth liturgical season runs from mid-spring to the summer solstice and covers the spread of forests. The four advances are conifers invading the boreal, flowers, grasses and cactuses.
Here is [[Eric]]'s draft of the opening ceremony for the [[Weekly Service Calls]] during this season:
:A blue brown world ... still ... a blue-brown world ...
:And then ... <gasp> ... Spreading green!
:Leaves. Veins. Roots. Wood.
:Forests grow.
:In the lush green forests, species are born.
:And for every species ... there is a story!
:This story begins with Conifers, Cone seeds,
:The plants which forested the boreal!
:Next came the flowers, sharers of food.
:Both the nector of bees,
:And the fruit from
:which early primates got their energy.
:Then came the grasses!
:Seas of green in drier environments.
:Seas of gold grain feeding humanity today!
:Finally, Cactuses appeared on the scene!
:Turning ever dryer desert into living surfaces,
:Freely available for hungry animals.
:Conifers, Flowers, Grases, Cactuses.
:From brown ... Green!
=== Discussion ===
[[Ben]]: The fourth season is the one I have the most quibbles with. It needs something about dinosaurs. Hard-shelled eggs might be an innovation worth mentioning along those lines. Perhaps drop two of the plant-based items (but definitely keep flowers!) and include legs (animals joining plants on the land) and hard-shelled eggs (enabling the emergence of purely land-based creatures such as dinosaurs). Or, since you discuss forest-dwelling animals in the third season, perhaps here we could talk about wings instead of legs (thus feeding one of my obsessions :-). Even without these changes, the season is about more than just “the spread of forests,” so the intro may need to be rethought as well.