Easter Sunday

Blue Skies And Sunshine


   Huge wide blue skies look down on us this Easter Sunday, the sunshine pours through windows all over the fens while children hurry to find Easter eggs that await them. How different this spring filled weekend is to that of last week, no sleet or snow falling, no rains to flood the flat lands and no trace of those fen winds that have haunted us through the first few months of 2013, indeed this Sunday is the perfect picture of early summer.
   Hedgerows are alive with bird song and the moans of growing buds that struggle to bloom, gardeners at last can get on their soil to drill and sow and families all over the east will travel to the coast for the first time with excited children who carry bucket and spade.
   For this bead maker it's a normal day at my flame tho I wish it was a different story and this big kid was also off to watch the sea and walk the beaches and rook pools, maybe soon he will be but until then his mind will take him there and fill his head with the sounds and smells of those quiet coastal villages that line east Anglia.
   My day will be split by a bike trip on fen lanes, a trip on which I will pass huge river willows and fishing heron feeding on roach and perch and for the first time this year I hope to feel the warm sun on my back as I travel those narrow drove roads that fen folk have walked for generations.
   As I write church bells will be ringing all of Britain and services will be held in both hamlet and town, hymns will be sung beneath stone built arch and under the rainbow shadows of great windows stained. For me my Easter will be to enjoy what I see around me, no books of praise nor words of worship do I need to celebrate this spring occasion, the first day of summer will teach me lessons of nature as does every day I spend here in the countryside where I belong and to those who know this old bead hermit I wish you a very happy Easter and a very enjoyable day.