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Valentine's Day is not yet here, but I'm already looking ahead to Easter. Our neighborhood has an annual community egg hunt, and those of us who put it together always start the planning several weeks in advance, so as not to be stuffing hundreds of plastic eggs at midnight the night before the festivities. All of this got me thinking about some pages I'd made last year with some of Anna's products, so I thought I'd move those pages to her Oscraps gallery.

The story here is a simple one: Sometimes I am easily amused, and for some reason, seeing that bright orange egg hiding in plain site on a black bench really amused me, and I thought it deserved to be photographed.

Journaling reads:
"Our annual HOA Easter Egg Hunt is always a huge success, thanks to Lisa S, our one-woman Social Committee, and her family, who spend several nights stuffing plastic eggs full of candy and prizes, and to a few faithful volunteers who join us in the wee hours of Saturday morning to help hide the eggs before the little ones arrive with their baskets and their enthusiasm. This year there were over 1200 eggs to stuff and hide! A few of the volunteers always bring their older kids with them to help hide the eggs, as a way to teach their children about service and community. With >1200 eggs to hide in a short amount of time, we grown-ups just wanted the eggs hidden, where "hidden" sometimes means simply out of the bags in which they're stored! Most of the tween and teen volunteers take this job very seriously, though, developing their own set of rules--the eggs mustnt be so hidden that they are never found, but they mustnt be so exposed that they are easily spotted--as they look for just the right place to hide the eggs.

There was one young man this year who was clearly cajoled/bribed/threatened by his mom to help. He had, shall we say, a more laid-back approach to this task as compared to his contemporaries. I watched, amused, as he walked along the sidewalks of the neighborhood, casually tossing eggs onto the open grass. We want some eggs to be easily spotted for the really little kids, of course, but he was oblivious to the fact that his dropping them onto the grass was causing them to fall open and spill out their candy contents. The highlight for me came when he hid an orange egg on a black wrought iron park bench! Clearly not the best hiding place, but it did make for an interesting photo!"

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