Each season lasts for about three months in real life. So every 3 months the we will change seasons.

New-green (Spring)

Snow melts and plants wake from their long slumber. As the snow on mountains melts rivers easily flood and currents become fiercer. That makes fishing and swimming dangerous on early spring but generally doesn't threaten the holts. Wolf cubs are born, and elves find their new bond-friends. Warming air also stirs the blood of elves, and so this is the most likely season for Recognitions.

Long Day-Star (Summer)

Days are long and warm. Those elves that sleep usually during the night, sleep only over the hottest part of the day and wake in the cooler evening, though the sun still shines then. Around midsummer it is dark only for few short hours each night. Food is plentiful and life is easy. Temperatures range during days between 15 and 30 C (59 - 86 F) and during nights it is slightly cooler. Rain is constant in Shadow Dream so this is the time floods become very dangerous.

Falling leaves (Fall/Autumn)

Tree leaves turn red and yellow, and fall. Air turns rapidly colder. It doesn’t rain as much, either small drizzles that last for some time or brief downpours, but the seashore gets more than its share of rain. Elves store food and warm furs for the cold season.

White-cold (Winter)

Air is cold. There is usually lots of snow in the forest but it doesn't trouble light elves, who can walk on it without sinking, unless it's very powdery, when they can't. The snow by the sea is more wet and heavy, and there tends to be even more of it than in the forest Temperatures in the forest range during days between +5 and -20 C (+41 and -4 F) and are usually during nights below zero degrees Celsius (32 F). By the sea the temperatures vary less and rarely go below -10 C but the humidity makes it feel worse. The trees become more slippery to walk and tree climb on so cublings are asked to take the stairs to the forest floor unless an older elf takes them down the trees. The sea freezes over near the shore, but never very far.

There is usually enough small game and stored meat that forest elves and wolves have enough food, though almost all bigger prey animals are gone from near the Holts. Hunting trips, if any are necessary, for bigger game must be done to the plains or other parts of the forest. Wavedancers have it easier for there game doesn’t go anywhere. Most of there game either takes shelter and falls into hibernation. Hunting is much easier at these time for the cold water makes there game move slower.