Happy Easter!

Easter Photo Montage!

Coconut and Swicky

Even at Easter, I look like a librarian.

My first flower this spring - a baby candy corn!

Flowering the cross at church

Easter egg hunt!

Easter goodies

Of course I got them bookmarks.
What kind of mother would I be if I didn't?

I hope your Easter has been as blessed and joyful as ours!



Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Library funding is restored at last "Nixon released $43 million in state funds, including about $6 million for libraries, that he had withheld because of budget concerns."
• Mayor Rahm's grand experiment: Libraries without librarians 
• April 5, 1774: Benjamin Franklin publishes “An Open Letter to Lord North” Proving that one should never speak sarcastically to idiots. 
• April 5, 1859: Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher 
• T.S. Eliot’s old summer home may become writers’ retreat 
• Net & Tech
• TPP so bad even the US congress is shocked 
• Health & Science
• Study: Fast Food Works Just As Well As Supplements 
• Caveat to all studies: This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study 
• Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild 
• Education
• Report: Big education firms spend millions lobbying for pro-testing policies "The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows." 
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• A tale of two killings: what happened when Idaho police shot a dog and a pregnant woman in one day 
• Texas Bill Would Restrict Filming Of Police, Segregate Independent Journalists Conversely: Colorado Bill Would Impose Penalty On Police Interfering With Citizen Recording Guess which state I'd rather visit/live in?
• When gelato gets racial or a little girl hears the N-word for the first time
• The Pentagon’s $10-billion bet gone bad  
• Other (Fun Stuff)
• This Is How A Bunch Of Today’s Teens Reacted To ’90s Music I feel so old. But I do like that one kid says, "I should listen to more '90s music." Yes. Yes, you should. 
• Man Retires, Moves, Discovers His Doppelganger Neat! 

Bonus!
Did you know they make edible Easter basket grass?
They do!