This is the first Easter I haven’t spent with my family in a long time, which is sad, but the holiday was made much brighter this morning when Elke knocked on our door and invited us to an Easter Egg Hunt in her garden. I found one nest of treasure right away, but it got much harder after that. I finally spotted a chocolate bunny wrapped in gold foil stuck in the branches of a tree. In the end I had that bunny, plus some smaller chocolate eggs and some fruit-shaped candy in bright colors. I traded my chocolate bunny for a white chocolate one, and then we all posed for a photo with our winnings. The eggs the kids dyed were beautiful: brown with the imprint of leaves from herbs and flowers from the garden, and stripes from the skin of an onion. The weather is stunningly beautiful today.
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For now it looks like the rains have stopped, and looking around the house I am surveying the damage. Nothing severe. The nice fern, sitting in a pot beneath the eaves, was pelted such that it is looking droopy, but it will spring back. The impatiens appear happy, and so do the St. Augustine plugs I have planted. I’ve been waiting two years to see one of the rotten limbs on the live oak come crashing down, and when it finally did the day before yesterday, it did so not with a fearsome, obliterating force upon the Japanese magnolias, but with a relatively gentile swinging motion. Pulling it the rest of the way down will be challenging, since other delicate plants are at risk.
The rain has been very welcome. At our house we have gone without rain for what seems like months. April and May are usually dry months, but they had been so dry that we were several inches below normal precipitation levels region-wide, and at this particular location, even lower, since rains that fell on other parts of the county missed us altogether. But we got a couple inches this week, and that’s good news. Now we just need another two inches this month to be “average”, though I have pondered for a decade or more why they continue to say year in and year out how annual rainfall has been “below average”. If “below average” rainfall is the norm, why hasn’t the “average” changed?
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