Easter Sunday at Home in Truckee

Easter at the house this year. The table got the full treatment — white cloth, the leaf-pattern plates, candlesticks, a bowl of dyed eggs in the middle. More place settings than usual, so people were coming, and there's still snow on the deck outside the sliding door, which is Truckee for you at the end of March.

Someone found felt bunny glasses. My daughter took the purple pair, my wife the blue, and there was a round of pictures by the front door before anyone would put them down. My husband ended up in the purple ones too, over a plaid shirt loud enough to count as its own Easter decoration.

Dinner off the grill: lamb chops lined up on both sides and a slab of salmon on a cedar plank in the middle, everything going at once. The eggs on the table were mostly for looking at by that point.