Easter Decorations - Outdoors & Indoors

 

Today (Maundy Thursday in English, Skärtorsdag in Swedish) was the warmest day yet here this spring, with temperatures up to around 22-23'C (71-73'F) in the afternoon. On my usual walk around the old cemetery, I noted that various bushes and trees are turning green now. Possibly it might slow down a bit over the weekend as lower temperatures are predicted to return - but on the other hand, som spring rain might work wonders as well...

 

Chestnut tree in the foreground

 

Blue pansies on great grandparents' grave

 

 

Many graves are decorated with daffodils for Easter.

 

 

Glad Påsk! = Happy Easter!

 

 

Magnolia, Daffodils and the Easter Rooster

 

Walked into town again today (Wednesday). As it got colder again over the weekend (and still), the magnolia tree in the park still looks much the same as it did on Friday.

 

Back on Friday I bought a pot of daffodils (or whatever name for them that you prefer)* for my living room table; and today I also bought a very small yellow kalanchoë for my Easter Rooster. 

*In Swedish we call them 'påskliljor' = Easter lilies

My other Easter decorations will soon be put up as well. This purple rooster does not hibernate together with my other Easter things, though, but in a more easily accessible cupboard with vases and candle holders etc. So he's usually the first one to come out! 

(In Sweden, Easter Roosters are more common than Easter Bunnies.)

Easter Decorations

 

The top of an old flat-topped chest in the living room is one of the main spots where I'm in the habit of changing decorations according to the seasons.

 

 

I bought a new yellow table runner for my living room table.

 

My collection of old Easter Eggs (all from the previous century) is divided between the bowl in the living room (first photo) and the top of the bookshelf in the hall.

These sit on the window sill in my living room...

 

... and these on the one in my kitchen.

 

 

Small daffodils on my kitchen table. This photo is from a week ago. They tend to rapidly grow too tall and start to wither indoors; but I just bought some new ones to replace them today, which will hopefully last through Easter. 

 

 

I also bought some paper napkins with Easter patterns today.

And Barbie and Skipper have changed outfits again, displaying more items sewn by my mum back in the 1960's. Barbie is wearing a blouse and skirt in yellow, Skipper a kind of pinafore dress, dark blue with red buttons and decorative red seams.