"Hoppy Easter" Pun intended. Rabbit sketch on an Easter morning
Happy Easter to all who celebrate and Hoppy Easter to all the rabbits and bunnies out there.
A rabbits and roses sketch made as a template for possible wallpaper design.
I have a love hate with Rabbits and bunnies. We've many wild in the garden and they are both a joy to watch and a dread to my plants. Fences and barriers need to be strategically placed for things I want to keep, so as to stop deer and rabbits from the buffet of my garden.
Scanned and playing with color and adding detail to the roses.
However, I do embrace the wild of the garden because it is both zen and also when you are the only gardener on 3 acres, "embracing the wild" can not only be a philosophy but sometimes the only choice. That means when these little fellows hop in and begin munching, one just sits back , watches and thinks, "Well that one is for the rabbits."
Playing with color in watercolor in tones of blue.
"Embracing the wild", can also mean an odd thing for the rabbits as well, for in the 'zen' of the wild in my garden, I've not only seen the rabbits munch away at flowers planted and not yet protected, I've seen the very same rabbits (or there brethren) swooped down upon and carried away in the talons of a hawk.
The Circle of Life in all it's glory in the bucolic setting of my garden.
Tones Of Purple.
But, today is a happy day to celebrate for many who do, so my joy to you. I recall many happy Easter's as childhood. Even enjoying the service at church which would have usually been joyful after the observation of lent. I had a 'mixed religion' family as one side was Catholic and the other Episcopalian. Tho, later in life, I gravitated to the Episcopalians (always felt they were more a 'social religion' a bit laid back.) the Catholics were always more elaborate and fun for a child. I remember folding palm sheaves on Palm Sunday. But, I digress...
The real joy for a child on Easter was after that, with family and food and treats and egg hunting. More than my fair share of Easter's involved a new pet as I'd beg and finagle my way to a basket of new chicks or a new pet bunny.
Colors of Easter and Spring.
That happy moment at the end of an Easter Sunday , bloated with sweets and handfulls of colored eggs found in odd places in garden and home, happily stroking some new pet on one's lap in an Easter dress.
I hope whatever your connection to Easter is , it is a happy (or HOPPY) one. And if you don't celebrate, I hope you have a joyous day and find a moment to go out into a garden and enjoy whatever season you are currently in.
Happy Easter and Happy Spring.
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I hope you had a lovely day @melooo182
We don't get bunnies in our garden, but I saw lots grazing by the road when driving home late the other night. I know they are pests for some, but they are cute. Apparently the Romans introduced them to Britain. Then Brits took them to Australia and messed up the ecology. Well they do breed like the proverbial!
Happy Easter.
They are darling, the little devils, but I have to have all veg and fruit caged/netted if I want any for us. I also have to net and cage our fruit trees and soft fruits between all the birds and squirrels. It's definitely a game of 'who can get to it first' out here, but for all the extra work the amount of wildlife I am lucky to share my garden with is staggering.
Even my poor chicken and quail have to be protected, but it's also nice to have so much wildlife about. Sometimes it can feel like living in a zoo or nature exhibit, but sometimes I wonder WHO is the exhibit, having been spied on by foxes and coyotes of a morning with my tea on the beach haha.
I hope you had a lovely Easter @steevc
We very rarely get squirrels in the garden and have not seen a fox recently. I was watching a blue tit checking out our nest box just after I did my latest video out there. Mind you, our cat found a baby bird recently. Cats can be very destructive.
Nice artwork
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How many freaking rabbits and chickens did you have if you were begging for one every Easter XD
Hope you had a great chocolate, eggs, rabbits and chicklets season :)
Well, I didn't ALWAYS get them lol, but you can have a LOT of chickens haha. And rabbits. I actually had a room with aquairums on the wall and some pet cages, as I was animal mad was the only child at home, and was home schooled so the 'animals' also got to be a part of my education.
I used to breed guinea pigs, hamsters, all sorts of tropical fish. I did bunnies a few times (and sell the children to friends and it'd be a lesson in economy, and taking the money to put back into my 'animal room')
I even once had a pet duck that followed me about like a duck and went with us in the Summer to a lake house haha, he'd swim around with me and was Terrified of Real ducks, never knew what they were.
I've had a lot of pets in my life. And the amount of lizards, spiders, baby birds, I'd have in my pockets at any given time was always interesting as well.
When we'd go to Florida I'd always catch the cute lizards (they sold them in petshops in the north where lived most of the time) we called them chameleons but they weren't really.
The only animal I never really had as a pet was snakes. I was never scared of them, but just never felt 'friendly' enough to keep as a pet.
Had turtles and tortoises. I also used to collect frog spawn from the ponds in Spring and hatch them out and keep a couple to 'full frog' in my animal room and let em go in Autumn.
Sounds like an awesome childhood XD