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Date: 14 April 2006 00:22:32
Festival number 2 this week. This one was based on "old European traditions" and involved processions and "Easter wands." Everyone dressed up, I was surprised at how much so. We all bought autumn leaves to decorate our wands. The old European tradition is actually a Palm Sunday tradition of decorating small crosses made of sticks and making a procession through the village and to the church. Then the stick is planted in a garden under bulbs or grasses growing as a sign of new life. Ours are planted under some wheat.
Someone had bought some deep purple bottlebrush flowers. Very appropriate for Easter I thought.