Peace, Easter and Critters

 Wishing you all a wonderous and joyful Easter with love and peace, so much peace that it overflows across the entire world. 

May your Easter celebrations be filled with love and maybe some delicious chocolate.

Happy Easter

Where does chocolate really come from?

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

and I'm posting to City Daily Photo

Looking dapper I know, although she's a girl! 

Peace Dog

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein

Bashful bunny wouldn't you agree?

"The great gift of Easter is hope." Basil Hume

Easter arrives in our hearts in many ways, each of us having our own meanings and traditions. Halloween is a good example of that. In fact, Easter and Halloween amazingly enough have similarities, a friend pointed this out to me. So I googled similarities between Easter and Halloween. It was an interesting read you may enjoy it as well.

Easter brings hope and renewal.

(and odd-looking carrots)

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal and new life.

Easter Egg hunts can celebrate not just the egg or candy you're hunting for but also nature's gifts waiting to be discovered. 

"One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others."

Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey and it's allowing others to take yours. 

Ready to eat!

"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."

Dejan Stojanovic

Why not create a rebirth of your artfulness?

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." 

Pablo Picasso 

Why not throw out the brushes and use those fingers?

"Easter knits hearts closer together."

Samuel Keane 

Sometimes Minnesota serves us a snowy hunt. 

 I spy a whole lot of eggs!

(The fire department sponsors this hunt every year.)

"Family traditions at Easter teach children 

what it means to belong."

Ruth Albright

Sending you Easter wishes and springtime smiles.

Thank you for stopping by and your gift of comments.

Take good care of you.

As you go about your week remember to feed your soul. Nature is the best place to begin. Emphasize the importance of solitude and self-reflection. Nurture your mind and soul and watch your life soar!

Entertainment is our theme this month.

 Welcome to my post for City Daily Photo

Our theme for April is "Entertainment." Please enjoy some of my favorite forms of entertainment.

Let's open this post at the rodeo with a wild confrontation!

Steer Wrestling.

Did I mention intense, and dusty?

 Have you ever been to a Renaissance Festival? These photos are from Minnesota's Festival located in Shakopee, Minnesota."

By My Troth

"Wait, do come back."

"When coming to a Renaissance Fair everyone here offers you an invitation to experience joy, goodness, delicious food and laughter all day long."

Good Morrow, My Lady 

Please, take my hand and slow dance 

with me all night long.

"Will you, will you dance with me?"

"All enticing magicians have 52 mutual friends."

A very long time ago, there was a place, in the ancient world, somewhere hidden amongst the woods and surrounded by craters deep within the boundaries of Shakopee, Minnesota and it still exists. Do you know the place?

Rain, cold breezes, or too much heat 

will never dampen your enjoyment trust me on this.

Well Met

What is the name of that song he's whistling?

How Fare Thee

"Alone you are a note. Together you're a symphony."

Mattey Stepanek 

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. If you haven't caught one of these intensifying acts please do, you'll be happy you did.

Is that genuine?

On the way to the airport, we stopped at 

The Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama 

It's always a unique visit and entertaining here, thanks to my National Guard son-in-law who brings us and explains any questions I have. Another important thing about this visit it comes with stern conditions and instructions to follow when taking any and all photos here.

Look closer what is that?

At first glance I bet you thought this was a delicious dessert pie, right? You'd be wrong.

Amusement.

Finishing with this charming moment of wonder. Shall I drink the water or not drink the water?

That is the question. . .

 

In a not-so-distant future.

Good choice.

Thank you for visiting and leaving your comments.

Enjoy your week ahead and have a happy April Fool's Day!

Take good care of you.

Grumpy vs Sunshine with critters

 Imagine that grumpy vs sunshine with critters involved, must include kitty cats, right? I mean cats are known for their assertiveness, independent style and the demanding cattitude. 

Certainly not the way of dogs. 

Welcome to

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and posting to City Daily Photo

One of his favorite places to view the world.

Bunny alert!

Last Sunday was a blizzard. This Sunday not so much and yesterday we had a brief encounter with summer nearly reaching 80 degrees.

 Darn scarves came out again this morning.

Meet my Pumpkin Man dressed up

 as a Firefighter for the day.

The world filled with imagination is everything.

If you won't give me treats now, then when?

There's no better feeling than the love of a dog. 

It's pure, real and forever. 

Every artist was first a thinker. 

"Let us look at the things we don't see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and discern the crackling in the brushwood of our emotions, so we may recognize the tokens of the heartbeats we might miss and value the quality and bits of our life story."

E. Peveragie

For our first day of summer (which arrived a few days after) the real first day of spring I drove to New Ulm, Minnesota.

It was my day vacation. 

Hermann the German

The Schell's Brewery  meet New Ulm's friendly peacock.

Below is my peacock. Note the difference in feathers?

My Peacock who arrived unexpectedly sometime in 2020 and he's still here. Notice he has a bit more of white feathers than the usual peacock you see.

Below are two random joy maker moments I've encountered recently.

Yes it's all about food or beverages.

From Duluth, Minnesota

Soup for one and the coffee unbelievably delicious.

From a speakeasy in Lakeville, MN.

"Every life is a dance of light and shadow. Joy and sorrow, hope and doubt. We sometimes believe that the goal is to stand forever in the light, to rid ourselves of all darkness. Yet shadowed moments have their own gifts. They teach us to recognize the depth of our experience. Without night, dawn would not be as breathtaking. Without pain, how would we feel compassion?" Ajmal

Thank you for taking time to stop by and for gifting me with your comments.

Take good care of you.

I'm not a fan of selfies but my kids are. 

My daughter and oldest son having a night out on the town.