Easter and Passover close together this year, so Happy Spring, too!

This is the season of decorating Easter eggs.  Only doing five this year, all spoken for already.  And I only had five white eggs in the house anyway.  This means omelettes this week, too.  Pictured is stage two, after I blew the eggs, collected the contents, then rinsed out the shells so that the eggs will be permanently good.

I thought it would be good to do marbling, never done that with eggs, though I've done various decorating ideas with the annual egg caper.  And it was a time to try out a new marbling kit of paints, which came complete with Japanese instructions...but there were bits of translation,too.  Marbling is pretty obvious, though, no need for a lot of explanation.

This isn't strictly marbling, since I did the classic thing of the designs on the water, but then while the shells were still wet, dropped more ink onto them.  I may give them another coat of something, too, not sure yet.   

And of course, waste not, want not, I dipped a couple of sheets of paper in, to make the cards that will accompany the eggs to their destinations. Then dropped more ink onto the wet paper.  It's very cool to see how the colors react to one another, some being more aggressive in seizing space than others.

So Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Good Spring, inclusive wishes to all blogistas!  I missed Nowruz, but I'm including it here, as another Spring celebration.

In the Spring, a Young Dove's Fancy..

Every Spring, the highest part of my patio fence becomes a prime dating scene in the mourning dove world.  This pair has been meeting here daily for a little while, and doing all the courtship dance and preening and chatting and mating.  

Their nest is elsewhere, I think, since they take off over the roof eventually. They're good neighbors as nesting goes, usually very quiet and calm, and having two eggs, from which two quiet babies hatch, and they don't panic if you look in gently.

And the lilac is blooming madly next door, filling my whole house with scent.

Suddenly, all Spring, all the time 6WS

Never fails to stun, the way one day it's a few green blades, and the next it's all cherry blossom and daffodils.  

These are a few of the Handsome Partner memorial daffodils, and there are others blooming again, their fourth season, on more than one continent, and several countries, thank you all who did that in his honor.

And our own local cherry blossom festival, my cherry bushes on the patio, moved from the front yard

The Russian sage returns, its first spring here, making a natural bouquet with the daffodils and the veronica, which is officially a weed, but I love it and won't pull it out

My neighbor's brand new cherry tree,  its first blossom since planted last Fall.