Easter Bunny

Didn't get to the garden yesterday. So, to have anything like an  Easter bunny theme, I had to resort to one of Tom Claasen's rabbits in Citygarden.

Not your typical bunny picture.  This was the first time playing with the new Digital Holga, just delivered on Friday. It's small, very light and really just a photographic toy. I was a little disappointed because the images were not as messy and unpredictable as the original film Holga. The vignetting is a bit hard and unnatural. The center is quite clear but sometimes you get some interesting spherical warping. A dash of Photoshop and a spritz of On 1 photo effects make the look perfect.

There's an album I started on Flickr with these. Probably try some more today.                      

Easter At Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia

Happy Easter!

Bruton Parish Church, the worship place of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and others while attending to government duties in Williamsburg, the colonial capitol of Virginia, is a beautiful place to celebrate the resurrection.

Joyeuses Pâques !

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Seen respectively at Guinon bakery/pâtisserie, au Roi Soleil and les Colonnes chocolatiers...

VDP souhaite de joyeuses Pâques à tous ceux qui célèbrent cette fête. Vus respectivement chez Guinon, au Roi Soleil et aux Colonnes.

In the tomb

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This, my friends, is THE picture for today, the day Christians call Holy Saturday.
The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday when Jesus lay in a dark tomb, hidden away, here in my country, in Jerusalem.
Although not a Christian I can't help but wonder what the feeling of Christians is on this heavy day. 

I entered this silent, dim, empty 18th century church in rural Austria alone.
How stunned I was to suddenly discover a life-sized dead "body" lying below the altar.

It was almost too life-like.

And look here -- how often do you see a pieta with Mary holding his hand?

A Way of the Cross ends on top of Mount Calvary, with three crosses as the final station.

The old Baroque church is called in German Kalvarienbergkirche.
Next to it was built (in 1984) the Franziskusgemeinschaft, the communal farming community where I volunteered last October-November.
It was a wonderful experience, all of it.
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Working Class Windows

Tucked away on the south side of Blackfriars bridge is a small church with beautiful stained glass windows with a difference.  They all depict working life in the area.  There are two sets, those that were installed in 1959 when the church was rebuilt after being destroyed in WWII and another set of life in 1984.  They really are treasures worth stopping by to see.