Easter Wells

[selenak]

Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates it. We followed family tradition and visited our Franconian Easter Wells again, which are extremely pretty, despite the fact the winter came back with a vengeance and so there is snow on the painted eggs. But have a look, even if you don't care for the holiday at all, I promise prettiness!










Every village here in Upper Franconia really comes up with its own variation, and attention to detail pays off:












And here's the bunnies' school next to the largest Easter Well:

Comments

[kskitten.livejournal.com]

The amount of eggs baffles me a little.

Happy Eater to you too!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

You Prussians just don't understand our Franconian egg-ridden soul.*g*

[shezan.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

(from a Frenchwoman who could not get away with the "Prussians" crack...)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

kskitten lives in Berlin. That makes her as genuinenly Prussian as is possible many decades after Prussia was dissolved, and it's the traditional right of the South German to call everyone who doesn't live in Bavaria a Prussian anyway.*g*

[shezan.livejournal.com]

it's the traditional right of the South German to call everyone who doesn't live in Bavaria a Prussian anyway.*g*

Quite right.

Oh, come to think of it, do you know this marvellous movie (http://www.amazon.de/Life-Death-Colonel-Blimp-UK/dp/B00006424A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1206315964&sr=1-2)? It's the most fantastic thing to be made in 1943 Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Colonel_Blimp). (And in colour!) You made me think of it because the beginning is set in Berlin.