Happy Easter Happy Spring #GloucesterMA

What’s it like here today? A bright and chilly Sunday, about 39°, meant hats and warmer coats for daybreak walkers. Gig rowers were pulling a fast clip in the harbor. Shorebirds and tracks were absent from the beach. Seagulls and robins were in the streets thanks to a night of heavy rains flooding out earthworms.

Let’s go Celtics! Celtics Easter pops from Nichols

Motif Monday: mature & mighty magnolias | forsythia fresh & fair

April is poetry month. Where is your favorite stretch or tree?

photo: New England spring primaries- red white blue yellow

Did you hear church bells ringing?

Many places of worship rang bells in unison this Easter. Did you hear them? Please share if you recorded. Here’s a brief snippet of how the beautiful carillon bells of Our Lady of Good Voyage parish sounded this morning downtown.

 

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As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here is a sampling of the 2020 hand painted Easter eggs by Betty Allenbrook Wiberg and Brenda Wiberg.

 

And some spring 2020 forsythia, and an Easter Parade clip, just because.

 

Motif Monday: blue and blossoms

 

Suddenly, forsythia – Hello h̶y̶a̶c̶i̶n̶t̶h̶ scilla

Clearing at Grant Circle on the Cape Ann Museum properties revealed a carpet of grape hyacinth scilla (correction thanks to helpful GMG reader comment). The patch across the street is a favorite stretch of spring.

Forsythia, 1965, Mary Ellen Solt_ From Flowers in Concrete _Bloomington Fine Arts Department Indiana University 1966_ The Getty.jpg

And suddenly forsythia

Welcoming yellow drops, indigo carpets, white drifts…happy spring!

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