Glad Påsk! (Almost)

It's not yet Easter, but it soon will be! I don't think I've ever really been somewhere that it felt like there was "Easter in the air," but that's certainly how I feel as I leave my apartment and walk to the city center.

I'm going to visit one of my best friends here, Michaela, in Östersund, her hometown, for Easter and I am so excited to experience a Swedish Easter. In Sweden, Christian holiday celebrations retain a lot of Pagan tradition (from when Sweden was forced into Christianity, oh the good times) and so they are quite colorful and exciting.

These feather trees are everywhere in Uppsala and I am lead to believe that they're special for Easter for this reason. When they appeared I thought perhaps they were a strange modern design trend...

This one got a little too excited and fell down. :(