Where I currently live, in Romania, the vast majority of people are Christian Orthodox and they celebrate Easter today along with all the other Orthodox people around the world.
There's a ton of traditions that revolve around the church and cooking insane amounts of food that I simply don't resonate with anymore.
Like for example the one where you must kill an innocent lamb and cook it. Ever since I was a child I felt there was something wrong with this tradition. I refused to eat lamb (although I ate other meats that my mother was giving me) and even before I became a vegetarian more than 7 or 8 years ago I've never understood why people do this in the name of religious tradition (although my family was/(still is) cooking lamb every year).
I still hope people will stop killing animals to use them as food since there is no more the need for doing that.
Anyways, rant over Easter traditions vs. vegetarians aside, and regardless of the fact that you're celebrating Easter or not, today was a gorgeous day in my side of the world.
So I took some more pictures of the blossoming trees from the nearby park. There's so much beauty in nature at this time of the year that if feels amazing to simply walk in a park and be there.
Along the usual white and pink trees today I discovered a full blown magnolia tree. Simply breath taking!
All photos taken with Canon EOS 450D. Please don't reuse without my permission.
Namaste
I only ate once lamb meat. Although I am currently eating meat I was a vegetarian for almost 6 years. Sometimes I miss feeling that clean as I was when I wasn't eating meat and I am thinking more often to become a vegetarian again or at least eat way less than I do now.
Thanks for your message and beautiful flowers photo :)
I have many friends who were once hard core meat eaters that gradually became vegetarians, because that's how they felt better, just like you say you felt. So yeah, reducing the amount gradually and listening to your body is a good way to do this in a natural way, not forced or imposed.
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Hope you are so good? Your post has been very good.
This is a very beautiful place to look at. I do God's dua,
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Hi sis it is really nice..
I like your post..
thank you for sharing me...
It's so beautiful. spoil the eyes of every who look at it.
Spring is one of the most beautiful seasons because flowers bloom
I wish you would have a beautiful Easter issue
Really wonderful photos done well my friend
Wow wonderful and excellent flower photography thank you
Oh hi, i like your story but i was really capture by that magnolia tree and its flower, just learned it from your post.thanks for sharing and i love you for being a vegetarian..i still eat meat but i love most are vegetables on the table..or any fruit
The flowers are beautiful. They of themselves make spring my second most favorite time of the year (late summer/early fall is probably still my favorite). It's good to see things blooming in some part of the world. Flowers have been trying around here but then get beaten down by rain or stunted by the cooler overnight temperatures. Today was a nice day, though.
Just a brief word on the killing of the lamb. I suppose every faith looks at this differently in some way. The way I was taught is that animal sacrifice, which is what I equate what you're saying to, was done away with when Christ sacrificed himself. So, the sacrifice ritual, which was supposed to remind the people throughout the ages that Christ was coming was fulfilled in Him, through His atoning sacrifice and subsequent resurrection.
So, for what it's worth, I'm with you about the sacrificial lamb killing on Easter. :)