Gagnante inattendue du Coco Concours

Pour la deuxième année, la boutique de David le Cordonnier et de Mariane la Bijoutière ont organisé un Coco Concours de décoration d'oeufs de Pâques.
La popularité de la première édition avait fait son chemin: il y eut beaucoup plus de participants, autant dans la catégorie Adultes qu'Enfants.
Quelle fut donc notre surprise, le soir du dévoilement des gagnants d'entendre le nom de "Lily Taillefer" pour le 1er prix du jury dans la catégorie Enfants pour sa création "Printemps et fontaine" (visible sur la photo avec les plumes bleues qui tiennent lieu de fontaine).
Alice a aussi participé avec sa simple et ingénieuse création intitulée "Oeuf-volution" (la minuscule antilope qui sort de l'oeuf cassé).

Thank you, Ottawa bunch, for a wonderful Easter weekend !

Thank you Janet, Colin, Rowan, Teagan and Griffin for welcoming us into your wonderful house full of fun and art ! Thank you for introducing the four of us (Rachel, Lily, Alice and me) to the great fun of decorating Easter cookies. You are the heart of sunshine and hospitality (as brilliantly portrayed above by Janet's cookie) !
I am sure the combined loving vibrations of our two families have contributed to a "rapprochement" between our two provinces which will soon lead to a NDP victory on election day and to our land becoming less reluctant ! (haha)

Noteworthy Easter cookies

When Colin produced this outstanding flower, the standard was set for everyone to try and emulate...
Rachel's unique feather-like swirls were then developed...
with the pointilliste approach experimented by several of us (here me)
with disasters along the way, of course... (here the "depressed frog", also by me ;-)
and possibly the masterpiece of them all: a red-winged blackbird by Rowan-the-Great !

Easter Cookies

Everybody participated in the great Easter cookie production at Aylmer Street. Here we see Rachel (her first time decorating Easter cookies) with Rowan (a veteran Easter-cookie artist) and Mika, a good friend of Teagan's.
All sorts of glorious shapes had been baked in advance by Janet and Colin, so the hordes of artists could express their full unbridled creativity with a variety of motifs and coloured icings. Egg shapes were the favourite.

Easter Eggs

What a most perfect Easter weekend we spent at Colin and Janet's house, with Rowan, Teagan and Griffin in full form, along with - oh bonus! - our beloved Meo.

The celebrations included everything one might wish for on Easter Day: chocolate egg hunt, hard-boiled eggs decoration with various inks and wax pencils, and - a novelty for the Taillefer-Harrises - Easter cookie painting (see following blog entry). Thank you soooooo much you Ottawa bunch !

Lily as an Environmental Activist

Another statement left by the committee leader on the dinner table... for everyone to peruse and ponder :-)

St-Étienne de Bolton

We had a marvelous week-end in the Eastern townships with Marie-Claude and Alejandro. With two very magical snow-shoe expeditions in the spring woods. Alice took a good deal of coaxing along until she realized that there were marks on the trees that she could follow, then we could hardly keep up with her. Un grand MERCI à Marie-Claude pour l'invitation.

Is this the start of something?

Could this be the first glimmer of adolescence? at seven?

Toronto

We had a very nice visit in Toronto with a very lively Natashia and her two rather sleepy parents. Lily was very keen to look after her little cousin.