Happy Easter, Everyone

While our Easter weekend here began with some snow, and this morning is still cold and crisp, it seems much more like Spring. We have chickadees and an occasional blue jay visiting our bird feeder and it is a pretty morning.

I stepped outside for a few minutes, and I thought back to all those Easter Sunrise services down at the Cross at Red Hill. This would have been a perfect day for that ... the Sun came up amid a smattering of clouds here, and everything was completely still, except for the chickadees :-) I thought back to all those times that Mom and Dad sang there, and the traditional tune of "Christ Arose":

Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes,
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever, with His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!

I can't count the number of times I played that, at Pleasant Hill. That, and "Rock of Ages".

Nothing has started to bloom yet here on Birch Mountain, but I think things will start perking up soon. The Sun is streaming through the as-yet-leafless trees, but things are poised for a perk-up.

We're going to a Lutheran Church service this morning, then we have a nice brunch planned. Our friend Michael is coming over around 1:00 pm. We picked up some good brunch food yesterday in our travels, and we will have a nice little feast.

I thought I would share a photo of our eggs (it wouldn't be Easter without Easter eggs, would it?)
Happy Easter!