Easter is observed on "the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox".
The vernal equinox is the first day of spring in the Northern hemisphere.
I like the phrase "moveable feast". It brings to mind images of celebration and joy. Appropriate mindsets for Easter and the beginning of Spring; new life, rebirth, resurrection, victory of the spirit and forgiveness for our sins.
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These are some snapshots I took at a feast yesterday. No food pics sorry. There was lots of good food but I had my hands full during dinner, or my mouth anyway.
A good friend has invited us to Easter dinner, egg dyeing, and egg hunt since my daughters were little. That would be about 15 years or so.
He is building a new house in a pretty area. He has planted lots of growing things (fruit trees, aromatic cedar, bonsai trees, flowers, vegetables) around his house. He spends quite a bit of time planting and tending to his place. It looks very nice and has a beautiful view. He and his wife live in the original smaller house at the bottom of a hill for now, until the bigger house is finished.
It's a nice tradition to see these people and share dinner year after year during the Easter season.
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Not an Easter story -
Ernest Hemingway wrote a book called "A Moveable Feast" about living in the Paris in the 1920's. If you have a chance to read some Hemingway stories it's well worth your time. He is known for his spare and precise writing style that beautifully captures images, thoughts and feelings with a minimum of clutter. Oh to write like Ernest Hemingway....
The product description of A Moveable Feast from Amazon -
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
