Happy Spring!

Happy Easter, originally uploaded by esmereldes.

These were my Easter photos, but since I didn't get them posted here in time for Easter, I think they will be "Happy Spring" photos instead...
I love to do holiday photos, but this year I didn't manage to really do any for Easter. Too little time for photography lately, and then on top of that, Anime Boston was Easter weekend, so even if I did make time for Easter photos, that time got taken up by convention stuff. I also wasn't in a very Easter mood - it was so early this year I didn't feel ready for it! All of my "spring indicators" have arrived - Easter, the first day of spring on the calendar, Anime Boston, the robins, the first flower shoots - but the weather just absolutely does not feel springlike, even by New England standards! Tho, the weather always sucks in the spring and I think many New Englanders (or at least me) have some sort of amnesia every year about this fact. I think part of the attraction of living in the area must be complaining about the weather, since we always do, and we always seem vaguely surprised by how bad it is, even tho it's bad more often than not. So I am outraged - OUTRAGED I say! - that it is going to snow today. Where is the warm weather?!
But seriously, even tho I am not surprised to find that the weather is still bad at the end of March, it screwed me up to have both Easter and Anime Boston be in March. I'm more used to them happening in April when there's blossoms on the trees and some start of new grass. I did manage to take some cute spring-like photos here, but the secret involved in them is that they were all done in planters!! The first two photos are in some outdoor planters in front of a flower shop on Boylston St (and boy did people give me weird looks on that one... And they couldn't even see the Pinky!) and the ones with pink flowers were done inside of the mall. So yes, Happy Spring, even tho it feels so far away! XD







And while I'm complaining/talking about Easter, I also have to mention - why were the Valentine's Day and Easter post-sales so bad? Christmas stuff was around for ages, but Valentine's Day and Easter candy was gone by pretty much the next day! Do people really buy so much more candy for those holidays? Or, do you suppose they actually scoop a lot of it off the shelves and return it to the warehouse for next year?



I bought these adorable little chick plushes before Easter and felt bad about not waiting until they were onsale, but now I feel glad I did, since they were nowhere to be seen post-Easter!! o.o
I'm disappointed, too, that I didn't get to grab any of the Hello Kitty Easter eggs, or buy anymore Cadbury Creme Eggs... Tho at least on that last one, maybe it is for the best. They have a ridiculous number of calories... ^^; (they're actually really kind of gross, but since I can only eat them at Easter, I always get excited about them - clever marketing!)
I did buy a Hello Kitty easter basket. This is probably something I did not need, but after being largely thwarted by my sale shopping, I was maybe a little too excited to get *something*... It is cute tho!