Spring snow scene and Easter cakes

[wongkk]

I was out and about in Oxford this morning on a quest for Easter presents for the office - quite difficult as we have a couple of alien life forms who don't like chocolate (no, I don't understand this either!).  The snow here is turning to mush and only a few flowers are toughing out the subzero temperatures but here are some photos of one snow and

Comments

[karadin]

All the photos are brilliant, that tomb deserves to be in a painting, and i love the cakes, I just wouldn't want to eat them!

[wongkk]

The Easter cakes are a little sugary and bright (I can feel my teeth recoiling!) but the dark chocolate round ones to the right of the strawberries are divine: dark chocolate with a mix of truffle and caramelized almond brittle inside :=) I usually buy a bigger size of this one for birthdays as most people like it a lot. Me included!

The tomb is curious - very urn-y! The climate feels very funereal at present and I wish the weather would warm up a bit; the winter seems to be going on for ever this year. To have people dying in 10 foot snow drifts in England in late March is not funny.

[csg_dear4life]

YUM!

[wongkk]

Hee - we never pass up an excuse for cake in England!

[brotherskeeper1]

Lovely Easter cakes ... I would like to have them with tea. This begins Holy Week. How fast Lent has passed.

I like your first graveyard photo. And you have blooms on trees! None here. Your graveyard photos are so old but there is a charm to them/

The monument which is 4rd from bottom is strange. I have never seen one like that.

Thank you for sharing your photos and Happy Holy Week to you.

[wongkk]

The cakes are fun. Several of the foodie and candy shops have nice Easter window displays, though, to be honest, they were offering Easter eggs for sale pretty much on Boxing Day! (day after Christmas Day - not sure if you have the Boxing Day holiday in the US)

The church (not in my photos) of St Giles was started in the late 11thC and finished in 1120 so it is pretty old! The flowers in the churchyard are "new" this year though :=)

It is a strange shape, isn't it? Very urn-y!

I hope that this week will be a good one for you after your turmoil last week.

[brotherskeeper1]

Again, the first churchyard photo is my favorite. But third from the bottom what is amazing is the blooming tree, the daffodils and snow on the ground! Very strange but so beautiful.

It is hard to realize that graveyard is over 1000 years old! I love old churchyards and old stones.

[wongkk]

We're quite spoilt for old things here. Almost everywhere you look in Oxford there are "old stones"!

I find that taking photographs makes me look at my surroundings almost as if I were seeing them for the first time. Usually there is some point of interest or beauty that I have missed previously.

[pyroyale]

Aw, the cakes are cute!

[wongkk]

The bit of shell on the head is very funny!

Oddly, the cake shop in the Covered Market that I often show doesn's seem to have anything much special for Easter - just a few little white cakes with "Happy Easter" piped on then and lots of chocolate eggs. Perhaps the person with the imagination is on holiday!

[puddleshark]

Strange contrasts! Bright yellow easter cakes, blossom and snow! The time is out of joint...

And that's a very impressive monument - I don't think I've ever come across quite such a big urn. It's urnormous.

[wongkk]

Yes, Easter snow is very un-jointly. The poor birds are very miserable as there is almost nothing left for them to eat (all the berries gone and no insects out and about in this weather) and they did start making nesting noises about 5 weeks ago but have since reverted to winter huddling and hunching in the hedgerows. I threw a blackbird a grape the other day and it squawked off with it like Ben Gunn with a piece of cheese!

I must examine this brute more carefully one day. It is, as you say, ominously urnormous!