GLAD PÅSK

GLAD PÅSK means Happy Easter in Swedish. It is a much bigger holiday here, which I am not actually celebrating (except for making colored hard boiled eggs) because Blake's sister and friend are in town visiting (more on that later). But I just wanted to show everyone a Swedish Easter Tree.

I asked a few swedes why they do this, and of course, they had no idea that it is a religeous thing. In 30 seconds of google research I found out that "In Catholic countries Palm Sunday is a day of joyous processions of people carrying palm fronds and laying them before the image of Christ. In Swedens climate some other kind of branches had to take the place of palms; early budding varieties of willow were a common choice. Still today, such branches are brought into homes and offices so that they have developed leaves by Palm Sunday." All I had heard was they needed to look for tree branches in the forest and put feathers on it because that is what you do on Easter. So there you go, a little bit of learning on Easter Sunday! GLAD PÅSK