Sunday, April 05, 2015

Have a Blessed Easter

It is a lovely Easter here in Georgia.  This is the kind of Easter’s I’ve grew up enjoying.  The azaleas are in bloom and the dogwoods add color to pine forests.  New life is all around which is the message of Easter—God is stronger than the grave.  The day started with a glorious sunrise and a stiff breeze which kept the sand gnats at bay. The day was brilliant and without a cloud in the sky.
 
Dogwoods and Pines


Dogwoods and Azaleas in my front yard
I’ve always loved Easter and especially Easter Sunrise Services, but over the past thirty years, when I was living up north and in the high desert of the American West, I’ve not missed these kind of days.  On more than one of these Easter’s there was snow on the ground (once, in Michigan there was half a foot and my daughter, who was in early elementary school, did not think it was funny when I suggested we forgo dyeing the eggs in order to make them harder to hide.  Most sunrise services involved bundling up with wool coats, a hat and gloves and as for flowers one was lucky to find a few crocuses in bloom.  But not this year. 
Traditional colored azaleas from the edge of my drive
Sadly, the azaleas will only be in fully bloom for a week or so, then they'll just be another green bush.  But for a week or two in the spring, they are glorious.  Enjoy the photos and have a blessed Easter.

19 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures, Sage! I especially love the dogwoods. It was lovely here in Ohio today, too. Not as warm as we'd like, but then it is Ohio.
    Happy Easter!!

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  2. Happy Easter!!!! :) Those pictures are beautiful.

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  3. Thank you for your wishes, and a happy and holy Easter to you also.

    The plants are sumptuous, and in a way it's just as well they don't last more than a month for we'd never be able to handle such zing 24/7/365.

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  4. Your photos are lovely. I suspect you are very glad to be back down south.

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  5. No snow but still massive ice on the lakes and cold enough to make me have communion with Vicodin. I wonder why in their infinite wisdom the early church didn't always use the same day as Passover for Easter? They after all are eternally tied together.

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  6. I read lots of Facebook posts yesterday about how Easter is not about chocolate bunnies and such. Of course, then one of the local churches did a helicopter drop of 20,000 plastic eggs filled with toys and candy this weekend.

    Off topic, I just noticed one of your popular posts on the sidebar is from an old 3 Word Wednesday. Those were the days...

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  7. A lot of blooming flowers here too. Happy Easter to you as well.

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  8. The weather is weird here, too. This time of year, you never know whether you need to wear a sweater or a T-shirt!

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  9. Hope you had a nice Easter. The flower pictures are beautiful.

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  10. Hope you enjoyed a peaceful Easter. We are still trying to find grass in the North East and snow flakes visited on Easter too

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  11. The azalea at the bottom is like the one my mom and dad had in their shrubbery at the front of their house. Love seeing them - we are having a lovely spring, aren't we?

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  12. Oh goodness how lucky you are to have these lovely flowers, blossoms of joy and hope. I bet being there for Easter this year brought back lots of fond childhood memories for you, that's always wonderful. Spring is playing games, or is it winter that's hosting that party, not sure. But it's really stalling our spring growths around here. Thank you for sharing such lovely spring moments.

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  13. You too have a nice one, mate. I'm coming back in a couple of weeks. Beautiful photos.

    Greetings from London.

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  14. I hope your Easter was especially nice, Sage!

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  15. The azaleas do look beautiful around here! I was in Savannah the other day (saw a wild fire, too). The azaleas are looking really pretty in your part of Georgia.

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