blossoming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of blossom

noun

1. The act or process by which something blossoms.

   ““The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.”