Happy Easter

Ah, and what a beautiful day for an Easter celebration. The children were dressed in their finest suits and their frilliest dresses complete, of course, with the little white gloves that I remember wearing on Easter Sundays when I was small. Even the birds seemed to be singing with exceptional gusto this morning. All is not perfect, though, for now I've returned to an empty home. This is my first holiday spent apart from my family and even my housemates are out somewhere, leaving me to solitude and a day of writing papers. I won't let this sadden me, though, because yesterday I sneaked out of the house with my camera and photographed some of the so-beautiful flowers around my neighborhood after mostly finishing my longest paper of the semester. My window is open, the birds are still calling back and forth to one another, and perhaps the sun will shine a little more brightly on me this afternoon.