Love from Algy

April 2026

Christ is Risen!🕊 May only good news find its way into your home. May love live on and help you through any hardship🤍🤗

Христос Воскресе!🕊 Пусть в ваш дом приходят только благие вести. Пусть любовь живет и помогает пережить любые трудности🤍🤗

Springtime Tulips.

Tyntesfield, Somerset, U.K.

Happy Easter!🕊🤍

May the light of Christ’s Resurrection fill your soul with unshakable hope. May love blossom like the trees after a long winter, and may each new day remind us that even in the hardest of times, we must not lose heart — for the moment will come when people say: “O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?”

Christ is Risen!❤️

Светлой Пасхи!🕊🤍

Пусть свет Воскресения Христова наполнит душу непоколебимой надеждой. Пусть любовь цветет как деревья после долгой зимы, и каждый новый день напоминает нам, что даже в сложное время отчаиваться нельзя, и настанет момент, когда люди скажут: “Ну что, смерть, где твоё жало, ад, где твоя победа?”

The Tale of Two Cities according to Stephi and Heiko - Part 570

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are having a good time, if you celebrate or not. One upon a time Eastern was about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But in a secular world, a lot of people have no idea what Easter is actually about. Maybe they read in the news about the pope doing “urbi et orbi”, but that might only be the case in a Christian society. For Christians it is still the biggest holiday of the year.

Our pictures are also not about the Christ Ian aspect of the holiday but rather about what it has become. I grew up in a Christian community but also lived with the secular customs.

One custom was coloring eggs, I always did with my mom. The first picture from Stephi shows an Easter basket with colored eggs. The eggs, sweets and maybe even presents were hidden in the garden and the kids had to search for them. That was always fun and it’s still a tradition where I live.

The second picture shows the commercial aspect of Easter with huge decorative bunnies surrounded by all kinds of chocolaty sweets. Of course you will also find lots of these chocolate bunnies, just smaller. The prices of these bunnies and chocolates have risen significantly in the last two years. Three years ago you got at least two bunnies for the price you pay for one today.

“Mr. Rabbit’s Symphony of Nature” by Charles van Sandwyk

cherry blossoms

Flora #03 Sept, 2022 .

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Pink Blossom.

April 2020.

When Algy woke up on Easter morning he thought that perhaps he had slipped back in time and in fact it was Christmas rather than Easter Day, for the hills and islands around him were all completely white…

A storm called Dave had swept over northern Britain on Easter Saturday, its friendly name belying its ferocious nature, for it had brought many hours of snowfall and icy temperatures to Scotland… including to Algy's home on the supposedly "mild" west coast, where snow was relatively rare, even in the depths of winter.

But although the bitter north wind remained strong, bringing further torrential showers of white hail and snow at times, the blanket of snow at sea level soon began to melt as the day advanced, although the temperature remained close to freezing. And when Algy flew over to his assistants' house from the beach – where he had spent the night curled up in a sheltered sand cave beneath the dunes – he was surprised to see that much of the ground around their home was free from snow, although there were still large white patches in places.

Wishing his assistants a very Happy Easter, Algy proceeded to look around their garden, as he wanted to know how far spring had advanced while he had been away, and he was surprised to see that the early pink camellias had been flowering unusually well this year, although many of their petals had now fallen.

But when he flew over to inspect the flowers more closely Algy got an even greater surprise, for no sooner had he paused to rest on a chilly but very pretty carpet of pink petals, than not one but two Easter Bunnies hopped out of the nearby bushes and presented him with decorated papier-mâché Easter eggs full of tiny, brightly coloured, sugar-coated chocolate eggs… it must indeed be Easter Day, and not Christmas! 😀

So Algy sends you all lots of fluffy Easter hugs, and wishes you all a very happy and peaceful Easter Day 🐣🌸🐥 🌹