Brighten Your Yard with an Easter Egg Bush

 

 It's a tradition at our house to have an Easter egg bush.

Every Easter, down comes the plastic bin filled wtih colorful eggs.

Each year more seem to be in there.

All of them have had holes "melted" into them and have either string or wires put in to make it easy to attach them to a bush in the front yard.

Every year, once the kids hang the eggs on the bush, cars slow down in front of our house to get a better look.  

 

It's so much fun. 

It's an inexpensive way to make memories for the grands. 

Grammie likes the Easter egg bush, too.

 

HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN EASTER EGG BUSH?  

IF NOT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ONE IN YOUR YARD?

Easter Egg Bush

Many, many years ago, I saw an Easter egg tree in front of a house.

The dozens of brightly colored plastic eggs looked so beautiful that right then and there, a tradition began.

Yard and estate sales usually have holiday decorations so I began the hunt for colored Easter eggs. 

You cannot imagine how many I found and available for pennies!

Thus began decorating outside at Easter time with the bright eggs.

The tradition continued when we lived in Arizona and continues to this day in Massachusetts.

This year guests who came to visit helped put the eggs on the big bush outside our house.

Boy, was I ever happy I didn't have to do it alone again.

A little sweet doll who visits here also assisted, to her delight, in adding eggs. 

Even Peter Cottontail would crack a smile when hopping by this yard!

HAVE YOU EVER DECORATED A TREE WITH COLORED EASTER EGGS?

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/.

A Bush in Bloom!

Driving down the street, people see quite a dazzling sight. The Easter egg bush is in full bloom and the branches are filled with dozens upon dozens of gorgeous colorful eggs!

Decorations can bring smiles to the faces of onlookers and that's what makes decorating worthwhile. In a world that's often filled with sadness and difficulties, a blooming Easter egg bush can make a difference! Children love it but adults do, too!

Decorating completed, I decided to stretch out on the padded lounge chair for a Sunday afternoon break. The lounge finally was out of winter storage. In the sky above, the sun shown down like a giant ball of hot melted wax. Looking up above, this is what I saw:



The birds had not come back yet so the afternoon was pretty quiet except for the sounds of neighborhood children laughing and playing in a nearby yard. No branches had sprouted any growth so the tree silhouettes against the sky looked quite picturesque.

No matter where my eyes moved, the vista startled in its simplicity and magnificence.



The clouds moved across the sky ever so slowly, at one point, covering the sun. Then, two clouds parted and a burst of light shot down out of the sky, completely enveloping me in warmth and light. It was as if God, Himself, sent down a message that spring had, indeed, sprung!











Guess who else enjoyed the afternoon sunshine on the lounge? It was our resident feline grandma, Miss Honey Cat! Here she is:









Before going back into the house, took one last look at the Easter egg bush, which is now about half decorated. There are still many more dozens of eggs to hang but on this particular day, we called it quits!


HAVE YOU EVER DECORATED AN EASTER EGG BUSH?