My friend sculpted this dogwood. On this the first day of Eastertide, I wanted to visually celebrate — like I visually commemorated Good Friday. The dogwood’s link to Easter is a tradition in the eastern South, so I thought I’d go with that.

Plus I am wiped out from cleaning up after Easter dinner (only 10 folk this year, too much flu!) and still haven’t finished washing up.

Let’s stop and smell the dogwoods instead.