Front Yard Transformation, Just in Time for Spring

The first "official" day of spring finally arrived yesterday and not a single flake of snow fell from the sky!

The air still felt quite chilly but brilliant sunshine flooded everything in sight. It was time to haul out the three fat grocery store bags filled with colored eggs and decorate the bush in front of our house.

Luckily, I had the help of two teenagers, a four-year-old, and his mom!  Everyone did a great job hanging eggs.

All through the warm months of the year,  yard sales provide  a constant supply of  brightly colored plastic eggs . Sometimes they are just 50 cents a bag. As soon as they come home, up into the attic they go. Every year the Easter egg bush gets  "eggier and eggier." (I think I just made up that word----eggier.) In other words, every new Easter season, there are more and more eggs to hang.

Luckily, my handy hubby helps out by drilling a hole in each egg before we insert a wire or string holder. Then the two halves of the plastic eggs are snapped shut and they are ready to decorate.

People in the neighborhood seem to like the Easter egg bush. It brings lots of smiles. A total stranger even stopped the car in front of our house and snapped a picture today!  Holy smokes. That made us feel famous!

 Gosh, that's probably the closest we'll ever get to feeling the way movie stars do when photographers snap their photos.

So the first day of spring and the newly decorated Easter egg bush arrived together this year.

Hope everyone who sees our Easter egg bush, both in person and throughout blogland, will smile and feel happy for a few brief moments.

Today's post has joined Metamorphosis Monday on Susan's blog, Between Naps on the Porch. Be sure to go there to check out other home projects. Just click http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/.