Yesterday was the first event of the season at the Community Garden.  It was to be an Easter Egg hunt and brunch potluck.  Most of the people who came seemed to know each other already, but I am new, so it will be awhile for me to feel like I fit in.

It was a beautiful day, though, temps in the low 60’s, bright skies with puffy clouds.  There was, thankfully, no breeze either.  Someone had set the tables with spring flowers, and the prettiest little hand-embroidered place mats, with state names and flowers on them.  I took a picture of the one from Colorado.

I made a fruit pizza to bring to the event.  This is an easy go-to when I’m not sure what people’s allergens are.  It’s a crescent roll crust, sweetened cream cheese, and sliced fresh fruit layered on.  Pretty simple, and you can use whatever you happen to have on hand.

The food table was pretty loaded – there were colored boiled eggs, at least four kinds of quiche, chocolate chip pancakes, raspberry scones, fresh rye rolls, pasta with chicken, fresh berries with whipped cream, and several kinds of coffee cake.  If you walked away hungry, you weren’t trying hard enough!

The kids’ play area, which is a naked teepee with some wooden furniture beneath it, was decorated with balloons.  There were at least 20 kids there, more kids than adults.  They ranged in age from about 3 years of age to young teens.

And of course, the Easter Bunny had to make an appearance (this is Klown, of course!).

My daughter did her best to make friends.

After the get-together, many people took a few minutes to put some work into their plots.  I did too, adding beet and turnip seed rows alongside the cabbage I’d planted a few days ago.

Our warm days are numbered, however, as another cold front with rain and snow is moving in for the first part of the week.  I’ll be going up to the garden tonight to put sheets over the cabbages, after I spread straw around them.  The sheets will stay on for the next few days, to protect the baby plants until the next warm day.  It looks like it will be at least Thursday before we see nice weather again.  I’m not going to complain; any moisture we get is going to be a good thing.  The cabbages will survive.

I hope you had a nice Easter weekend!

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