Easter Bunny Moves with the Times

Even with all the orchards gone the valley is still a beautiful place in Spring.  Most houses still have one or two fruit trees left over from the old days in bloom.  It seems to be axiomatic that if you have a fruit tree you add another.  We are all fruit farmers at heart even if we spend our days in gray cloth-covered cubicles.

My childhood Easters were marked by egg hunts in the orchard after church wearing new Mary Janes and a new dress my mother made, usually in a pastel color with a big bow in the back.  I'd get dirt on my socks and in my shoes.  Our baskets were stuffed with malted eggs but the prize was a chocolate egg from See's. Rocky Road was my favorite. We never had See's candy any other time.

When my kids were small they'd hunt eggs in the church apricot orchard.  Now at 16, they hide the eggs for the little ones and wait to see what the "Easter Bunny" brought them.  The most prized gift is an iTunes gift card... and a chocolate egg from See's.