Hey everyone! Well it was in the 70s, until it snowed (again) on Saturday, melted yesterday, lather rinse repeat. Our official last frost date is mid-May, which I abide by; I had a friend who pushed it last year and lost all her tomato plants.
Anyhoo, Carolyn has family in town and we’ve been focused on that so no real post today. The Easter Bunny still came to visit the Maine crew (even though yeeeesss, they’re all adults at this point!)
Cover photo: my spring bulbs in the snow. They’re mostly finishing up at this point, and the lilacs are blooming. Smells great.
Let me know if you did anything special for Easter, what’s going on in your gardens, what fragrance you’re wearing, whether lilac smells like Glade Plug-Ins to you, or anything else you’re moved to share.
We went to Easter vigil Saturday then to Easter mass on Sunday. Dinner was the usual ham, scalloped potatoes, and green bean casserole. Dessert was Easter rabbit cake on a bed of green coconut and frosting, generously decorated with candy by my teens. Mostly I was a couch slug and took wonderful restorative naps. Iris and tulips are up, squill are in bloom. No lilacs yet but I anxiously await their glorious fragrance. SOTD is Cartier Carat.
That sounds lovely! I love those Easter cakes decorated by enthusiastic teens! I’m awaiting our iris with bated breath.
Eldest son & wife came for Easter Day lunch. For pudding I made burnt basque cheesecake & stewed rhubarb with orange. Youngest was away on the Isle of Man so declined. We sent them home with left overs & we still have enough lamb & veg left for a pie that will serve both us & friends this evening.
Out lilacs aren’t quite out yet, they’re a seasonal treat, the bulbs are over but the cherry & apple trees are looking all fluffy & bridal. We have the promise of soft fruit a plenty from the gooseberry & blackcurrant bushes. The rhubarb has already put forth more leaves since my picking it on Saturday.
Spring seems imminent but the weather is cool again
Ooooooh I made a burnt basque cheesecake a couple of years ago and it was glorious — very impressive looking too! I love all the fluffy fruit trees — that time of year here as well. Your fruit bushes sound divine.
Our spring bulbs are gone by now, but the azaleas are in full bloom. It looked beautiful around the church on Easter. I sang with my choir during a Good Friday service and again on Easter. Mr C and I went out for lunch. I ordered lasagna — had half then, and half later for dinner reheated. I wore Etro Messe de Minuit on GF, and Guerlain Mademoiselle on Easter. It has a marshmallow note, so that was my nod toward Peeps I guess!
I miss the azaleas — there are a few here but not the profusion there are back east. MdM is such a perfect Good Friday scent. Love your Easter Sunday scent — I always feel like it has to compete with all the lilies in church!
It’s still quite cold in the morning here but we’re moving — slowly — towards proper spring. Did errands and got hair cut, ate those hard-shelled little easter egg candies (not too many), remonstrated with the second jasmine which is still not performing while the first jasmine is sprouting leaves. Have chilblains on one finger. Sigh. Lilacs, cherry blossom, tulips all out. Bunnies out of hibernation and being idiots too close to the road. Still haven’t managed to see any meteors during our meteor showers.
Wait, the easter eggs that are I think candy coated malted milk balls? LOVE those things, probably my favorite. Even though the weather is one step forward, two steps back we are inching our way to proper warm weather!
Solid chocolate eggs with crackle exteriors. The size of robin eggs. Mine were one colour but you can get beautiful colour/tone mixes on the expensive ones. No malt. I am not partial to malt.
I SAT ON MY NEW PORCH!!!!
That is all.
Oh! I made Easter dinner…
Then WE SAT ON MY NEW PORCH and ate dessert ( well… they ate it. I made it. )
Yay on the new porch (we need pix!)
I didn’t do very much at all. Dogsat for a friend, went for a walk (it was lovely here) then blew all of the good work walking by getting Taco Bell. Read “Sliver” by Ira Levin (fun, but ending dumber than the movie) because it was at the library sale for $.50 and has been sitting there glaring at me. Did not smell lilacs, which I miss very much. Before bed watched “Someone’s Watching Me!” On DVD, which is a fun TV movie by John Carpenter made after he wrote the original story for “Eyes of Laura Mars” but before “Halloween”. Lauren Hutton plays a TV News producer who is being terrorized by a stalker, but sure as heck isn’t a cower-in-terror kind of girl.
Omg! Taco Hell!
My ( very occasionally) guilty pleasure! Just the regular taco, nothing schmancy… I can’t believe I’m copping to that! But ( shrug emoji)
I love Taco Bell and don’t feel the tiniest twinge of guilt! I first discovered them while I was in Calif. At the time, CT didn’t have any. My favorite Taco Bell was in Lahaina, Maui. We would go there at night. It was on a side street off of Front Street. You could only eat outside in a small area with tables and benches cemented in place and not much lighting, but you could hear the ocean nearby. It was wonderful.
Now that sounds like much better ambience than the usual highway exhaust!
There’s a Taco Hell here and I’m always surprised at how much business they’re doing — not like there’s a shortage of drive through taco joints.
That sounds like a perfect Easter weekend, tbh. Some TV watching, a little walk… I’ve picked up so many books at the library sales, and used to buy their DVDs when I had a player.
Yeah, pics! And bathroom too.
It’s GORGEOUS, they’re both gorgeous. She should share pics!
Hon, the only person possibly as happy about you and your porch is ME!!!! I’d have stuffed myself with the lemon cake, they can have all the coconut cake.