さくら？ もみじ！

Happy Easter! There've been some peevish messages going around, rebutting the cavil that this is really a Roman spring festival (Ishtar is not Eoster is not Easter), but there's definitely a pagan energy to it. I remember how different - and in its way profoundly right - it was to experience Easter in the Antipodes, where it's an autumnal holiday: a harvest festival. So while I can't resist sharing more cherry ebullience, here's also the scene at a copse of Japanese maples, with their spring anticipation of the reds of fall.