Even Darth Real Life is not able to keep me from my annual Easter Well sight seeing, or the pic spam based on it. Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and hopefully good holidays to everyone:





( More Easter Wells await beneath the cut )

For the holidays, I offer a pic spam of our Franconian Easter Wells again, starting with a new one I only discovered this year.



( It must be bunnies! )

...because there were some again this year, though much fewer, and less elaborately done (it takes a large group of people to decorate some of the biggest wells), but still with much love and care, and in some cases wit, so I can share the results, and wish peaceful holidays to everyone celebrating.

To start with Good Friday morning again, when we got up early to watch the sunrise over Bamberg and its castle:



( more Bamberg at dawn and Franconian wells in broad daylight beneath the cut )

I wish you peaceful, joyful holidays, be they Easter or Pesach, and start my annual Easter Wells pic spam with the heroes of the hour....

( Cut for Monanotlisa, covering two pics )

FIREBUNNIES!


( Eggs, wells and prozessions await beneath the cut )

...to all who celebrate, and greetings with pictures of beautiful wells for everyone. I'm still with the APs until the holidays are over, and then I'm off to Munich again. Yesterday we followed family tradition and drove through Franconian Switzerland to admire the Easter Wells. Generally this has been a cloudy week in my part of the world, but on Good Friday, the sun shone in Franconia. And behold:




( More below the cut, including this year's Secret Egg Superstar )

Last week we had an actual hurricane in Germany, and there's still clean up in progress, but yesterday was unexpectedly sunny in Franconia, and thus the APs and yours truly followed (Franconian) tradition and hit the countryside to gaze at our Easter Wells.

( The results are below the cut. )

It's Good Friday, and due to one of my Aged Parents being away, holidaying with a related young one in need of a mentor, I and my other Aged Parent made the annual trip to visit the Easter Wells in Franconian Switzerland earlier than usual, which means you get my annual pic spam earlier as well. Also the weather after a sunny March decided to become absolutely frightful, and it's supposed to snow tomorrow, so we figured to visit the lovely wells with their self painted eggs as long as going was good. We also attended the early morning passion walk, which was a first for me (and having been to Jerusalem, I can assure you the hills of my hometown are just as tough; especially at 5 am at 2° Centigrade). The man carrying the cross up and down no less than three Bamberg hills must have trained the whole year for that one. But while the sun didn't shine, dawn over a sleeping city and three thousand or so people marching carried awe with it.

( Proof and beautiful wells below the cut )

If you're familiar with my ramblings, you know the Aged Parents and self always make a trip through the Franconian countryside around Easter, because we Franconians have a unique custom: decorating all the wells, and in some cases also the bridges, with hand-painted eggs and greenery. Even on cloudy days, it makes for a beautiful spectacle, and so I wish you a happy Easter weekend with the following pictures from Franconia:

( water, bunnies and eggs )

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!

( Annual Easter Wells Pic Spam ahoi! )

Not that I'm in the slightest bit envious inhabitants of a certain island get to watch new Dr. Who episodes tonight. No, not me. However, being in Franconia, I got to watch Easter Wells, as every year, which isn't half bad, either. What are Easter Wells? Have a look. Icon makers, if any of these tickle your fancy for an Easter icon, feel free. ( Eggs, Water, Beauty )