Early one Easter morning as apple blossom drifts soft like snow...

Happy Easter everyone! We got back from our week in Wales just in time for the Eostre's Hare to come calling in our garden early this morning...
Hence forth I was pulled out of bed far, far too early by two excited little bunnies, and had to sneak out in my dressing gown to give him a hand while they were busy with breakfast...
It was a beautiful morning though, full of drfiting blossom and dappled early morning sun, the garden changed a lot while we were away...

Can you spot the nest amongst the bluebells by the play house?

They were in a great hurry as you can see!




And here's the nest after being raided by little hands...


Two happy (soon to be chocolatey) bunnies...

It's only been a week but it looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do with all you folks, so I'll come around visiting soon...
I'll be posting a couple of holiday adventures to share with you soon as well - we did have fun, and lots and lots of sun - in Wales, in April! Amazing! (We had packed all our raincoats!)
Enjoy your day wherever you all are... :)

Tales of Eostre and a wander in the woods...

'Eostre and the wounded bird'

copyright of Carrie Osborne.

Here is an Easter sketch for you!

I'm sure most of you already know of the tale of the bird Eostre transformed into a hare... and although I know it has no real historical basis and is more of a 'modern' myth as such, I like it and tell it to my children for the sheer pleasure of its story telling ...
In brief...

...Once when spring was late in coming, a young girl found a bird dying in the snow, its wings frozen with winter's frost. She called on Eostre, the Goddess of the Dawn to help and so she came over a rainbow bridge, bringing spring with her robes of sunlight and warmth and melting the snow. Eostre healed the bird but could not make it whole, so to save its life she transformed it into a snow hare. The hare who was once a bird, still laid eggs but of rainbow colours and gave them to Eostre in gratitude...

Eostre is also said to have Hare attendants to carry her lanterns of dawn-light...

In our world, the sun shone long enough today for easter egg hunts in the garden and a winding walk through the woods...

We saw buds on trees, deer slots, ferns clinging to moss clad limbs, sodden badger sets and a fallen silver birch with bark that shone ghost pale in every colour of mother-of-pearl. (But alas my camera just wasn't up to capturing that!)

Happy Easter!