Marching on….somewhere under the ground Spring is waiting to challenge Winter to an arm wrestle…I anticipate a stiff match up but Spring to prevail….

I find myself well into April already for lots of reasons including travel and weddings and another year passing. Lots of my good friends have made large moves and I find myself once again checking my foot position and shifting my weight….what will be my own next move and will anyone see it but me?

Easter is early and it’s all about the Cadbury Crème Eggs really. I remember our Easter mornings in PEI. On Sunday we would come downstairs to the dining room and find our baskets filled with chocolate and a gift from the Easter Bunny. Some of the gifts I remember are a sun hat, a pinafore made by my mother, a watch, a sun dress – all brightly coloured for springtime. And most often a chocolate egg hunt. Once we’d done it for so many years we could anticipate their hiding places but the EB was pretty smart and later on that Sunday we might find chocolate in lamp shades we’d missed in the morning.

Small holidays like that make me smile and long to be with the clan on the island which is where I will probably be come Good Friday. I need to catch up with Ellen Louise.

In my player: Iron&Wine, Ron Sexsmith mix, Abbey Lincoln, Bonnie Prince Billy

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