It’s not about the chocolate bunnies…
Your correspondent is off for points Iberian, and will be largely out of touch for a couple of weeks. While readers cannot be sure that they will be missive-free for the entirety of the trip, regular service is unlikely to resume until late April.
Meantime, with an eye to the festivities this weekend (and the ecumenical observation that sometimes a pretty egg is just a pretty egg), an illustrated primer on coloring eggs from Barefoot Kitchen Witch.
Tenga las buenas dos semanas…
As we prepare for a dip, we might recall that it was on this date in 1865, after four years of Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over 1 million casualties, that General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean in the town of Appomattox Court House , Virginia.
