This blew my mind when I saw it. A new article kids about an Easter Tree! A German pensioner Volker Kraft decorated an apple tree with his family with Easter eggs in the garden of his summer house, in the eastern German town of Saalfeld. Every year since 1965, Volker and his wife Christina spend up to two weeks decorating the tree with their collection of 10,000 colorful hand painted Easter eggs in preparation for Easter celebrations. Over the years, they have moved beyond plastic eggs, to other egg creations and crochet eggs. Kraft's daughter, the painter in the family, creates artist patterns, and vibrant colors, and others with silver and gold colors. Later landscape and animals emerged, and now also feature eggs sent from fans from all over the world, even one by Bill and Hillary Clinton. I know some don't get into decorating anymore, but I think this is great. I found things like this magical when I was a wee one.
While we here at the Casa du Borghese enjoy decorating, we don't go to such that length!
My mother usually places out her ceramic eggs she painted back years ago when she used to do ceramic painting. We have several vessels around filled with them.
A Moser green glass rabbit that was my grandmothers and placed next to her picture. My grandmothers favorite holiday was Easter. We also placed out her Lifton rabbits under a cloche.
A nice Easter dinner on the docket today. My uncle and his son and daughter in law will be here with one of their sons and his girlfriend. No pressure on your's truly for a well-cooked dinner. I even let the kid come out yesterday and colored a few eggs, which I hadn't done in years.
Happy Easter Everybody!
Any traditions in your home?
The Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford has a wonderful collection of eastern European painted and dyed eggs. We saw them when we went there one Easter and one of the curators opened drawer after drawer of them to show an entranced 5 year old girl.
ReplyDeleteI bet that would have been spectacular to see!!! Happy Easter Helen!
DeleteThat Easter Egg Tree is spectacular but my gawd, that's a lot of work! I like your Easter decorations, especially your Mom's ceramic eggs and your Grandmother's green milk glass rabbit. Enjoy your day, your company and your special meal!
ReplyDeleteHere's to hoping I don't burn the dinner up!!!
DeleteI hope you too enjoy the spring holiday Debs!!!!
10,000 eggs? That's too much work.
ReplyDeleteI love what you did with the casa. Happy Easter!
Wow, that egg tree is crazy! You sure don't see people decorating for Easter as much. I like your mother's eggs. I think we have a few of them painted by someone too our family knew. Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteMistress! This is all so beautiful!!! I especially like the rabbits under the glass dome. Happy Easter Weekend to you and yours!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Miss Parker. I have a set of those left in rabbits myself that are in storage, I decided to put my mother's rabbits under glass like I used to do.
DeleteI love those ceramic painted eggs and your colored ones are so vibrant!!! I love eating hard boiled eggs. I would love to be stuck under that tree of eggs -- especially if they were full of fun little things. My favorite thing about Easter has always been the time spent with family and then dinner. I think the best way to celebrate the holiday is by celebrating love.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter➕ Spring, my dear!
That's the best part of any holiday with me mahogany, just spending time with friends and family and eating a good meal.
DeleteWhat cool images and story of the German couple and the eggs on the tree! So cool! What a delightful post! I did a small egg tree for my kids when they were little. I love that you keep traditions going and still display your holiday decor. It makes life fun and changes things up.These colors and eggs are so perfect for Easter. But want I want to know it what you're cooking for dinner? I know your a good cook.
ReplyDeleteI have my son and one daughter coming for dinner...probably the last big dinner that will be served in this house.
Happy is the way you want to celebrate Easter!
Well dinner turned out to be a hit Agnes. The main course was Lamb with rosemary and a feta cheese sauce drizzled over the top, red beets, steam asparagus, rosemary potatoes, and honey glazed parsnips and apples.
DeleteI love a nice, understated Easter egg tree.
ReplyDeleteHoppy Easter!!!! 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰
Oooh so cute!
ReplyDeleteHappy Spring and Easter to u too!
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I have always enjoyed your holiday touches...not to much, simple and elegant. But that egg tree!!!! OMG!!!! sO cool. I can imagine people come far to see that. Enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteMy Easter family traditions? Wrestle with my nephews post-Easter-feast for candy from their baskets of course!
Let us know who wins that wrestle. When it comes to kids giving candy up you're in for a fight.
DeleteWe used to do a big Easter dinner, decorated the table with individual Easter baskets, dyed eggs. The works. I used to go to as many Semana Santa processions as I could manage. This year, SG bought torrijas at the supermarket yesterday. We might have to up our game next year (which won't be difficult).
ReplyDeleteI think Easter dinner for me is right up there as one of my favorite dinners of the year. But Thanksgiving still my favorite.
DeleteTundra Bunny here...
ReplyDeleteThe only Easter tradition I have now is a Lindt chocolate bunny and mini-eggs! Your decorating is simple and elegant as always -- love the rabbits in cloches and the Moser green glass bunny. I have a similar one in pale blue milk glass that I've used as a butter dish for the occasional Easter brunch. Hope you and yours have a very happy Easter!
I never thought of using that as a butter dish that's excellent. My mother also has a green Moser drink pitcher that I believe might have been her aunt's. I love that shade of green and I'll bet that blue is just as pretty.
DeleteAnd I've seen those Lindt chocolate bunnies and gold foil but I've never tried one yet. Maybe I should have Deedles get me one when she goes to get her 50% off candy
Since I don't celebrate any of the holidays, I take advantage of the next day's candy clearances. I suppose that can be a tradition.
ReplyDeleteTell me...a over dose on those little chocolate robin egg thingies. I buy them all up.
DeleteI'm with you, Duchess. Peeps on the menu for dinner tomorrow night.
DeleteOne little nibble of a peep is all I need. I've never been a big fan of anything marshmallow.
DeleteMads, darlin', if you can't eat the peeps, blow them up in a microwave. Such satisfaction.
DeleteI'm sure my mother will thank you for that tip!!
DeleteTruly beautiful post! I love the photos...and love those rabbits, thanks for giving the maker out who produced those. I remember them from when I was little. I would love a set now. This post... really cheers you up.
ReplyDeleteYou'll often find there's Lefton rabbits in the bigger antique markets. The set I have in my storage unit was actually sold as a set, but they're often seen individually along with the porcelain peeps.
DeleteThat tree was fantastic!! I, myself, don't decorate.
ReplyDeleteAs always your Easter decorations are lovely I so enjoy seeing them.
ReplyDeleteThat Easter Egg Tree is a tremendous Labor of Love and quite Amazing. Your Eggs turned out so vibrant. Princess had one of her Boy Posse over to assist her and be her Egg Decorating Minion... she had the Boy working like a 3rd World Sweatshop Child at it, took them a couple Hours to do a dozen Eggs to her specifications. *LOL* Happy Easter my Friend.
ReplyDeleteHence all those beautiful Ukrainian eggs that you featured! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
DeleteHappy Easter!
ReplyDeleteBut I'll be honest...I'd rather see your basket of goodies!
im just relieved you don't do those party tricks anymore with the disappearing-colored eggs.
ReplyDeleteI have never done Easter Tree.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe.
I hope you had a lovely Easter Dora
DeleteI liked decorating eggs as a kid, but then I was expected to eat them. Not so fun. Really, it's incongruous having hard-boiled eggs in a basket among the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I remember when I was little and the colored eggs hard-boiled would be in the Easter basket with all the other candy and chocolate. They would always be the last thing eaten unless they made it to the refrigerator first. Luckily now I love me a hard boiled egg with salt on it.
DeleteI used both ovens yesterday, the upper one at 325 for the ham, and the lower one at 425 for roast veggies and a potato casserole. I have long wanted two ovens for the three or four times a year I am cooking a complex meal.
ReplyDeleteThat is nice...and it would certainly make thing much easier. I hope you meal was delish. I find cooking to be very calming and rewarding, do you?
Deleteso nice idea, the realization of which involves a real work. Don't forget that rabbits have roots by Babilonese people (take a look here on my blog) and that only to mean and remember how much Christian feasts & holidays have very ancient roots and completely foreign to the Christian and Judaic religion.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a nice Easter!? I had no idea about the rabbits.
DeleteSo important:
DeleteEaster would be nothing more than a reworking of an ancient cult of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, a deity associated with fertility and eroticism.
“This is Ishtar”, reads the caption of an image of the Mesopotamian goddess, once again viral on social networks in this period, “and is pronounced 'Easter'. Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (such as eggs and rabbits) were and still are symbols of fertility and sex (or did you really think eggs and rabbits had anything to do with resurrection?). After Constantine decided to Christianise the Empire, Easter was changed to represent Jesus. But Easter (that's how Ishtar is pronounced) has its roots in the celebration of fertility and sex."
That's ridiculous. Who would be crazy enough to spend that much time and effort to decorate so much for one holiday? I mean, REALLY!
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