Easter Special Of The Day Thread (ESOTD)

Another one of my "Special Whatever Of The Day Thread". Since I'm now focusing on Easter this thread will be all about Easter celebrations. You know: bunnies, eggs, plastic grass and whatnot. Just like before I'll update the thread every day and will stick the photo of the picture for the day in the upper left-hand corner of the website (see where the tiny cupcake picture is now?). Then you can clickity-click on said picture and be directed back to this thread. To see and read about the Easter special for the day. Fun huh! Let's begin with the ESOTDs (Understand the letters? It's the initials for Easter Special Of The Day. Then I pluralized it. Oh, you did get it. Fine then.)

Crazy Easter Eggs
Creator: Ashleigh5272001 (flickr.com)
Place: New Albany, IN (USA)
ESOTD: 3/24/10

I admit, it almost looks like these eggs may be better suited for something a little more Halloweeny. But Easter eggs they are so on my Easter Special Thread they shall be!
Here's a fun little game, try to figure out if that egg on the left is supposed to be Frankenstein or Dick Tracy.

Girl Bunny
Photographer: Talese
Place: The US of A
ESOTD: 3/19/10

I think it's important to dress up during every holiday. It's good for the psyche to be "one" with the holidays by dressing up as one of the well known figures (Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, ghouls, etc).
I for one have been seen wearing bunny ears at the local grocery store. No, not Easter yet but it's good to be ready.

Lenten Cross
Photographer: Avondale Pattillo United Methodist Church Place: Decatur, GA (USA) ESOTD: 3/18/10

Having attended a Catholic school I still remember Lent as the time we made those mini crosses out of palm leaves. It was fun in a crafty kind of way. Apparently, it is also custom to slowly decorate a plain wooden cross as lent progresses:
"On Ash Wednesday, the plain wooden cross is wrapped with thin branches and displayed in the Sanctuary. Then on the first Sunday of Lent, the "rugged" cross is draped with a violet cloth."
The final touch are the palm leaves which are added on...can you guess which day?? Palm Sunday!! Der de der. (For all your heathens out there, Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter Sunday).

Easter Horse-Bunny
Photographer: David
Place: Gainesville, FL (USA)
ESOTD: 3/17/10

All hail the Easter Horse Bunny!!
David says,"Good sport, though I'm not quite sure how he felt about wearing the pink ears."
He felt how any proud stallion would feel: AWESOME!

Quilted Eggs
Creator: Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen
Place: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ESOTD: 3/15&16/2010

These quilted little gems are so beautiful that I am going to extend my Easter Special of the day for two whole weekdays! That's right, not only will they be be the Easter special for Monday 3/15, but for Tuesday too! Wow! How freaking unreal is that?!?!

Spaz Easter Chick
Photographer: Rob Allegar
Place: Washington D.C....sortof
ESOTD: 3/12/10

A cute little chick on a pile of sticks. He's either spazzed out or having a bad hair day :-S
Happens to the best of us :-)

Adult Easter Basket Photographer: AnniePlace: Bostonish, MA (USA)ESOTD: 3/11/10
Annie says, "My mom always goes above and beyond the call of duty with gift occasions. I know for most 28 year olds Easter is no longer a gift-giving occasion. But my basket was fantastic! It was filled with supplies for my baking, quilting and decorating. All kinds of good stuff!" I want an adult Easter basket :-(




Mr. Easter Bunny! Photographer: Greg & Juliet PoolPlace: Carmel Valley, CA (USA)ESOTD: 3/10/10

"The Easter Bunny makes a special appearance at the park in Carmel Valley Village, for a great big egg hunt in the grass." - Juliet Pool
Wow, a sighting of the big man...or er...bunny himself.
What I wouldn't give to shake his paw.

An Egg In A Tree
Photographer: Tobias Horvath
Place: Berlin, Germany
ESOTD: 3/9/10

A shot of some fake Easter eggs in a random tree in Berlin.
Those eggs remind me of the Easter eggs my Lithuanian grandma used to have around her house. They have a more "European" or "East European" feel to the way they were painted.

Easter Centerpiece
Creator: Denise Wells
Place: Yankton, South Dakota (USA)
ESOTD: 3/8/10

Denise says, "I decorated my Tealight Tree with Easter Eggs, Flowers and Ribbon. Then put glass bowls filled with candy where the tealight platforms are. It's nice for any Easter Party."
I say, "It shouts spring!"




Stuffed Candy
Photographer: Ryan Alexander
Place: San Fransisco, CA (USA)
ESOTD: 3/5/10

Ryan says, "Here is some candy my mom sent me. Thanks mom!"
Is there candy inside the stuffed animals? I'm thoroughly confused.
Still, I love the face on the dog in the rabbit suit.




Easter Goodies!
Photographer: Denise Cortez
Place: San Ysidro CA - Tijuana MX, USA
ESOTD: 3/4/10

Denise says, "Here are some goodies from Scarlett's (her daughter) Easter basket."
Since Denise is somehow living in America AND Mexico at the same time she would also like to translate for my Spanish literate readers:
"Estas son algunas de las cositas que Scarlett resivio en su canastita."
Hum...well I don't know Spanish, but I'm pretty sure she's talking about the rest of us English speaking only folks.
Or maybe she just repeated what she said earlier about her daughter's basket.
We may never know :-(





Gianduja Easter Eggs

Photographer: Jacq!

Place: Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

ESOTD: 3/3/10

Jacq! (I wish my name had punctuation in it...) says, "These painted eggs are made from real eggshells filled with delicious Gianduja hazelnut chocolate."
Yummm, sounds delightful. I want one!
"They cost $6.50 each."
Gulp! Whether that's in Australian or American money, anything more than a 50 pence is a bit steep.

Pascha Ornaments
Photographer: Bill Rogers
Place: Tampa, FL (USA)
ESOTD: 3/2/10

I get the bunny and the egg, but I'm lost with the angelic boy-girl king-queen.
Let me do a quick internet search.
Ok, apparently the statue is a boy. Actually it's Jesus as a boy. Typically referred to as the Santo Niño de Atocha he's the, "Roman Catholic depiction of the Child Jesus and is popular in the Hispanic cultures of Spain, Mexico, Philippines and the southwestern United States, especially New Mexico." (Wikipedia.org)
Can you believe I attended a Catholic school where half the students were Hispanic?

Easter Cupcakes
Creator: Carmen Rose
Place: Virginia, USA
ESOTD: 3/1/10

Now this is what Easter is all about! Bunnies, eggs, bright colors, sprinkles and a butt load of frosting. Oh boy, oh boy! What a spartacular way to start off my ESOTD Thread :-)