Happy early bird Easter to you. Unlike many holidays which we celebrate on the same day each year, Easter wanders. My sort of celebration!
Here’s the logic underpinning Easter dates.
“The date of Easter is determined by the moon. Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox,” Kim Mandelkow, director of the Office for Worship with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee…
(Source: KRON4)
In the same vein as last year’s “Easter Color” post, I’d like to celebrate colorful reawakening and revitalization. Rehabilitation. Renewal. Fresh starts. In technicolor!
Last year salamanders caught my eye.
Since spring is synonymous with the reemergence of vibrant lizard-like amphibians — most notably the red eft and the yellow-spotted salamander — it feels appropriate to substitute creatively died Easter eggs for a watercolor tribute to these brilliant wild neighbors brightening our day with their own unique Easter color if we take the time to observe them.
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In lieu of an Easter egg hunt I bid you a happy, healthy holiday (with a basket full of good fortune in your wildlife wanderings.) I hope you spot some Easter color, whether salamanders or otherwise!
(Source: Easter Color)
So today I share with you an Easter basket full of colorful reawakenings. The first two photographs above, captured in 2011 and 2015 recollect icier Easters. Lake Champlain is still frozen solid in both images!
This next photograph is also from 2015, three days later, one day before Easter. Winter appears to be yielding. Though spring’s endeavor appears somewhat earnest.
By late afternoon spring has sprung!
The lake is still ice covered, but the promise of warmer, sunnier, drier days ahead appears to have blossomed. And this is the spirit of Easter with which I’ll conclude. Colorful reawakening. And what better way to convey this wellspring of optimism than some Easter-ish blooms?
Four years ago I took these springtime images a week before Easter. Pictures more potent than words.
Happy Easter!
What do you think?