It's a glorious Easter Morning

The magnolias are spectacular this year, perfectly balancing their muted pink with the loud and bright forsythia anchored across the yard. It’s a wonder to me how each year can be so different from the one before. I thought our magnolia was dying last year, and here it is full and vibrant and showing off! My children and grandchildren will come for Easter dinner this afternoon. The schedule of holidays and gatherings and expectations has been thrown off kilter with life changes and pandemics and such, and the thought of a family holiday dinner and an Easter egg hunt has me feeling, well, normal. Life as it should be. The Easter baskets are filled with locally made chocolates atop real grass started six weeks ago in the greenhouse. Like the magnolia, the grass is full and colorful and perfect for this Easter morning. After coffee, Max and I will go out in the yard and gather some daffodils for vases, and I think a few of those magnolia branches may add a nice touch. Happy Easter everyone, it is a glorious day!