And It's Eastertime Too
With a record time of twelve days after returning home from vacation and just two days shy of being an Easter surprise, all of the Austria pictures are selected, edited and published. This was made possible by post-vacation ambition and our divide and conquer strategy: standard vacation pictures posted to Flickr with minimal editing (part one, part two), the best of the kids pictures on the kids page (ongoing, beginning here), and the rest of my self-indulgence left for the Republic. Note the minimalist design, a byproduct of the speed-or-quality trade-off, and how it plays rather ambivalently with the Gothic world of Stift Melk. Or just enjoy the pictures:
A particularly distracted Easter Mass on Sunday reminded me of the irony of bringing children to church—you are least able to draw the spiritual strength you need from Mass at the time in your life when you most need it. We persevered and in the end, the crowds and apparent fashion shows around us did little to diminish the feast, both in the religious and gastronomic sense—Easter ham and a leg of lamb go a long way to restoring one's spirit. I hope all of you had an equally joyous Easter and I wish you more of the same for the rest of the season.