“Dream big, hop far, and always check behind the tulips.”
I swear I saw what appeared to be a rabbit, but it was bundled, dressed in a winter coat, knit hat and mittens. I saw his breath in the air. Poor rabbit!
The temperature is 53° but it feels much colder. It is cloudy and windy. Rain is likely. I have no plans for the day so I’ll leave my frilly dress and patent leather shoes in the closet.
When I woke up on Easter morning, I made a beeline to my basket. The first thing I always saw was the chocolate rabbit standing up straight. I went for the ears. While I was chomping, I checked out the rest of the basket. I was never disappointed.
When I was an adult, we all still went to my parents’ house for Easter dinner. My mother had baskets for us filled with some candy and small gifts, like earrings. I made her a basket. One year I found an Easter stocking and used it as her basket. It stretched and held all the goodies for my mother. My father’s basket had lots of candy. He loved candy. He used to hide the candy dish filled with Hershey miniatures and Reese’s. That made no difference. We all knew his hiding place. My brother and his family came and always brought my mother a lily.
I was my mother’s sous-chef. We started on the dinner the night before. I sat at the kitchen table cutting vegetable while she was at counter readying other dishes. It was fun to be together chatting and listening to music.That gave us a head start for Easter dinner. I used to set the table with a tablecloth and my mother’s dishes. I put flowers in a vase for the middle of the table, flowers with spring colors. She had a few rabbit dishes we filled with vegetables. The table was wonderfully festive. Dinner was delicious.
I wish you a wonderful Easter Sunday. I hope your baskets are teeming with goodies. I’m guessing the rabbits have no ears.
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April 6, 2026 at 8:34 am
Family gatherings seemed to be happening everywhere around here yesterday. We hosted two of my wife’s relatives from Manchester, her niece and twelve-year-old great-nephew. While they were staying over, we took them to visit their 98-year-old grandmother. Later we went for a coastal walk in an area thought to have been first occupied by humans over 14,000 years ago. Conditions were mainly sunshine with a cold breeze.
April 6, 2026 at 10:12 am
My family is scattered. My sister lives in Colorado. My other sister lives outside of Boston. My brother has absented himself from family so we never see him. I do talk to my sisters often, but we seldom get together.
The cape was the first stop of the Pilgrims before they landed in Plymouth. There are kettle ponds all over formed by retreating glaciers. The Indians predated the Pilgrims. It is an amazing place.
April 6, 2026 at 4:16 pm
I’ve always been fascinated by the intersection of social anthropology and geomorphology, with a particular soft spot for glacial landscapes. Living in Britain and Europe, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such rich glacial history, but my travels have taken me much further afield. My wife and I spent many holidays climbing across the British Isles, the Alps, and the Pyrenees. After retiring, we kept the momentum going, exploring the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, and even bagging a few peaks in Australia and New Zealand. In younger days I visited Jasper in the Canadian Rockies whilst on a study visit.
April 6, 2026 at 6:28 pm
Peter,
I have been in the mountains but never climbed a mountain. I do love wandering on the cape. I take rides sometimes turning only left or only right. The Andes were amazing and so impressive, but I got sick every morning in the mountains starting with Ecuador. Paraguay out of the mountains was the end of it. It was only in the morning so it was bearable. I’ve been all round the Rockies but not on foot. I remember the dinosaur prints.