A Very Happy, Dual-Fisted Michael Jacksonesque Martian Egg-Thing -- With Remarkable Army Haircut
Easter Was Here
Yesterday was Easter. And being Easter, the day brought back many happy memories from my youth. Going to church with the family, coming home for a big lunch with the Grandparents, and then searching all around the house for Easter eggs.
Much fun was had by all. Searching high and low and in the oddest places for real and candy eggs that my sneaky parents had hidden the night before. (My Dad was always easy. Look along the top edges of the 'World Book Encyclopedia' grouping, second shelf up, for the jelly bean eggs along the top edges of the books. And there they were. Rows and rows of colored, sugary delights, lined up along the tops of the pages of higher learning. Year after year.)
Hide And Seek Eggs, And The Egg-Dog's Wonder-Nose
I think our Mother was a bit more into this whole hiding thing. Some of the goods were pretty hard to find. Though most eggs were located within an hour or so, some were not found until weeks later. The real eggs we missed were pretty easy. They started smelling like a barnyard after a week or so under the couch.
The candy ones could be a bit more difficult to round up. The really well hidden ones. The ones the dog couldn't locate, not even with that special, Easter-Egg hunting nose of hers. These missing candy eggs were eventually found by following the ant trails to their well-hidden locations.
Such fun. Searching out all those hidden eggs, getting into small tiff's with my brother and sister over who found the most bounty, now placed with gentle care into our individual Easter baskets, each lined with that odd, green-plastic grass.
The hunt, the find, the consumption, the stomach ache. Very similar and in the same vein as Halloween six months earlier. Except Halloween is not considered to be a religious holiday, though probably a pretty important one by various Dentist and Dental Hygienist groups the world over.
All the too-much-sugar-difficulties aside, the second most-fun part of this day actually occurred a few days earlier. Coloring the REAL eggs my Mother hard-boiled for us, to be used as 'hiders', as well as for decorations around the house on Easter. And though I'm not a big fan of eating these smelly things, they are a whole lot of fun to color and create.
Eewwwg, That's Gross
There were even special 'kits' made for this sort of thing. These included paper shapes we cut out as templates for the surface of the eggs, which we then drew on with special Crayons, then dipped in food coloring with peculiar little wire loops. We three kids came up with some pretty fancy eggs over the years.
In time, our older brother's tastes in egg decorating changed. He seemed to aim more for a food coloring multi-mix that turned the eggs a pretty consistent shade of mud-clam brown. I don't think this was any sort of major protest on his part. I just think he wasn't all that into this sort of thing after awhile. Then again, he'd discovered sports and girls by this time, so that may have had something to do with his lack of interest in this whole egg-coloring business.
But somehow, those simple days are now long gone. And since it has been many years since this event occurred, I felt it necessary to do SOMETHING along this line...as a project...so I came up with this idea you see presented here.
Trading Doodles For Eggs
Recently, a friend gave me a pile of jotted notes about something or other, the subject of which is not important to this project at hand. But what IS important, is that on the back of these notes, resided a bunch of doodles, depicting various events arising from a mind wandering somewhere or another in space.
Maybe it was the shape of the doodles, or something else about them I can't quite place my finger of sentimentality upon at the moment. But whatever it was, these whimsical, ink-pen wanderings reminded me a bit of the Easter eggs of old we used to decorate. So, after gaining all necessary permissions, I photographed a few of them for display and use here. Since they look or remind me a bit of eggs, "Why Not"?!
These doodles are available for those of you out there to color in as you see fit. Just in case anyone else is missing this whole 'color your own egg' thing on Easter. Feel free to decorate them up with any implement of your choosing. Colored pencils, Crayolas, tempura paints, oils, pastel chalk, or if so inclined and technologically savvy, one of those expensive and hard-to-get egg-coloring computer app's.
Well, thanks for stopping in, and have a very nice Day After Easter, and let's get coloring.
Carrot-Headed Person With Serious Comb-Over, Stuck in Large Wind Storm
Mr. Grumpy. Standing Onstage in Tudor Ruff and Too-Small Bowler. Staring at Microphone with Uncertain Disdain
A Very Abstract Egg Representation. Drawing Inadvertently Left On the Floor Too Long and Somewhat Abused by Stinky The Cat
The Easter Pelican. Englewood Beach, Florida. April 16, 2017. Checking Out Newly-Lain Easter Egg...Marveling At How Well It Holds Up In The Sand Without A Shell
My Own Addition. Mr. P, Doing His Best Impersonation Of An Easter Egg
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