Eggs, baking, flowers, washing, etc... standard Easter preparation activities. The baking was done a day before Easter and the egg painting was finished just a few minutes before midnight... But it was fun! Maybe the latest hour my little helper and me have ever painted eggs for Easter... Here are the results of both baking and painting. I painted just some of the eggs. Little hands did the rest of this job. I also prepared and participated in baking just half of the Easter "козунаци" /kozunatzi/ the traditional sweat Easter bread with milk, eggs, lemon, almonds, raisins. They were delicious. Every room had their lovely aroma... They are long gone now and I am dreaming of baking a second batch...

It is the second day of Easter today! The greatest Christian holiday and the one celebrated for 40 days too. Happy Easter! Painting eggs and making Easter breads  we call "козунаци" /"kozunaci" in Latin alphabet/with milk, eggs, raisins and almonds is only part of the celebration  here. We did not go to the church to go three times around it at midnight. It was a long day before it, baking for Easter. But we were out of town for some hours and visited lovely places and relatives. Having a lovely day on a holiday, when one is expected not to work is a blessing! This year Easter is really early, but spring seems to have come earlier too. The parks and meadows are covered with flowers. I counted more than 10 in the city garden the other day. We saw storks yesterday, so we could hang our martenicas on trees now. Birds are singing. and we heard a cuckoo. We saw some butterflies and geckos, some swallows too, The fields were green, rivers full of spring water. Gardens covered with flowering tulips and hyacinths. The sun was shinning brightly all day. Just little clouds here and there to add some interest... Short-sleeve day in the country after the cold days by the sea...

It is Orthodox Easter today. We decorated the eggs, baked and had great Easter here. Here is a picture of the eggs.