IF - egg

This egg comes as a surprise: whenever one has cracked, another is appearing inside. Will the purple one be the last?
I have always been intrigued by Russian matryoshka dolls, so I simply had to make my Easter egg working after the same principle.

I also made some yummy Easter cookies including egg-shaped ones, which you can see here:

Everything just had to be some shade of green to at least feel a touch of spring inside the house because guess what I saw when I raised my shutters on Saturday?

That's a view you'd expect on Christmas, not on Easter. I hope that at least some of you have enjoyed a more spring-like Easter.

IF - Cultivate

For this weeks topic I post a drawing of a Southern wood ant because they (like all other ants) cultivate real colonies of aphids to milk their honeydew.

Besides it is part of the current project to be shown on my homepage 40 Days - 20 Eggs:

Thinking of Easter what do you think of first (apart from easterbunnies)?

Eggs

Nicely decorated hen’s eggs or maybe even quail eggs.

Or what other eggs are there? Which animals do lay eggs at all?

You can see this on my homepage during the 40 days from Ash Wednesday till Easter:

alternately on one day you can see an egg to learn the next day whose egg that is.

Have a nice guess!

Speaking of 40 days till Easter: if you’re counting properly there are 46 days!

Has there been a mistake in counting?

No, the six sundays were ignored.

And on my homepage there’s no fasting – at least not for the eyes.

IF - sweater

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”  Ambrose Bierce

No, you haven't got the wrong link: this is not chicken (from a few weeks ago) but sweater.

Because I am currently preparing an Easter Special for my homepage which - naturally - circles around eggs, I immediately thought of a hen breeding eggs. But unfortunately she doesn't feel very confident of her abilities, so to be on the safe side, she decides to dress her eggs in sweaters. Poor little ones: now they really must be sweating...