Happy Easter!

My collection of Easter photographs is fairly limited, and so I wind up posting the same ones over and over again, but I haven't used the photograph above in 4 years, and so it is definitely time to use it again. It was taken in the dining room of the house where I grew up in the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago back in 1957, where my parent's, Nelson and Mary, were hosting Easter dinner for both sides of the family. From left to right are Aunt Kitty, my maternal grandfather's sister, my mother Mary, Grandmother Spillard, my mother's mother, my Grandmother Hoyt, my father's mother, and me, four years old and at my most charming best. Things didn't start to go downhill until I reached five. And in the background is Petie, our pet parakeet. It was a time when the whole family was still around, all living in the same area, and we would get together quite often. Something I miss very much. And so, I wish everyone a happy Easter and hope you are able to get together and cherish holidays like this with family and friends. Enjoy!