easter in connecticut

it's saturday and korrina, chanda, greg and i picked nana up from her assisted living apartment.

we're on our way to kathy's for our good friday (even though it's saturday) codfish dinner.

 preparing the potatoes . . 

 cleaning up after having a snack . . 

 codfish and potatoes with mustard butter sauce.

 playing bowl . . 

 celebrating jason's birthday . . 

and then it was time for everyone to go to bed while the easter bunny hopped around leaving chocolate goodies . .

passover seder

 this is julia, brian's parents' cat. 

 korrina and chanda hanging out in the kitchen while waiting for the rest of the seder guests to arrive.

 the turkey breast that brain's mom cooked . . we had a wonderful time with everyone, and of course the food was incredibly delicious.

 korrina and i had gifts for the new baby in joyce and neal's friend's family.

i came home and dyed easter eggs . .

maundy thursday breakfast

it was so dark this morning, that i lit the candle while we had breakfast.

a walk to the met museum

 i walked with christine and her family from our neighborhood all the way up to the met museum today. they were keeping track of how many "steps" they were doing, and i think this walk was 10,000. it's nice to walk with others who love to walk so far. we stopped in central park for them to eat their delicious treats from carlo's bakery on 42nd street and 8th avenue.

 at the museum we toured the egyptian wing. this beautiful necklace is made of carnelian barrel-shaped seweret beads. it was found on the mummy of one of the wives of thutmose iii.

the temple of dendur was the destination, and also a view of a real mummy. her nephew was studying the egyptians in his school at home in michigan, and i think they all enjoyed seeing the tomb drawings, sarcophagi, amulets, etc . . there's so much to take in. i never tire of the egyptian wing.

tuesday morning breakfast . .

scrambled eggs with fresh thyme and herbal sea salt (from tarrenz), oatcakes and green tea.

dinner with christine

 our friend christine is in town for a tour of manhattan with her sister and niece and nephew. it was fun to meet them this evening. they came over for a red bean and quinoa chili dinner, with sorbetto for dessert. take note of christine's beautiful knitted sweater. it's a design by nicola susen called catty-corner and is knitted with noro yarn, which i was so proud of myself for recognizing.

christine brought such lovely gifts with her! kusmi teas (which i love) and anton berg marzipan (which i also love . . !)

and beautiful danish yarn . . (which i probably love the most . . well, that anton berg marzipan may come first . . )

spring . .

 

snowdrops we, petals three, you may see.

white, green, gold, we unfold, in the cold.

words of cheer speak we clear, spring is near.

march for our lives

 it was really a beautiful day for a demonstration, not too cold and not too hot, with lovely sunshine. we walked uptown from 42nd street, along broadway and amsterdam avenue to the museum of natural history at 80th street where we passed lines of people waiting to join the march on central park west.

 we went further north to about 84th or 85th street and then joined the march as the crowd turned right onto CPW . . 

 here we're passing the natural history museum . . 

 and the new york historical society . .

 and fourth unitarian universalist church . . 

 the dakota . . 

 

don't forget to vote!

 we then walked from 34th street along 7th avenue to 12th street and greenwich avenue . . 

 for coffee at the village den restaurant . . 

 and omelettes.

it was very sunny . . 

it felt great to be back in the neighborhood.