I Decorated

 

It's April, no foolin', but we could honestly use more showers. Tom reports that our garden is very dry, and so far this rainy day isn't rainy at all. Mother Nature April Fools? 

I have been enjoying my Spring/Easter decorations as I sit in my recliner too many hours a day, icing and elevating. I got them up early in the week as part of my "activity", moving around as directed on my rehab charts. 

I tend to put the decorations up in the same places every year, with few changes. 

The mantel

Ducks in a row on the old trunk. Tom decorated his little glass house.

The coffee table

Color coordinated :-)

My childhood Easter basket. 

Chickens in the powder room, with the first blooms from my mother's camellia. 

The kitchen table, with chicks and a bunny that belonged to my maternal grandmother. 

And some of the other things placed here and there. 

There are more, but that's enough for this post. 

On one of my walks in the garden I saw that the violets are starting to bloom. Since they are too close to the ground for me right now, I had Tom pick me a sweet little bunch.

They remind me of my mother, because her name was Violet. 

T.S. Eliot famously said April was the cruelest month, and that is often quoted as a comment on the unsettled weather and the storms it can bring. Some parts of our country, and world, are suffering. The news can be dismal and depressing. 

I am wishing you all rays of sunshine to brighten your day and lift your spirits.