A few Easter leftovers ...

As you know, Easter came early this year ... on March 23, in fact. Did you know that the earliest Easter can ever appear on the calendar is March 22? I learned this from 11Alive News meteorologist Chris Holcomb (as well as a good old-fashioned Internet search for confirmation--a good journalist gets confirmation, you know). Easter will not be this early again until the year 2160--and the last time Easter was so early was 1913. As far as March 22--the earliest Easter possible--well, that hasn't happened since 1818. And it won't happen again until 2285.

Tanna asked me recently if I knew how the Easter date was figured each year. (He often quizzes me on various subjects just to see if I know the correct answer--although he sometimes surprises me with a legitimate question--LOL!) Anyway, all I could remember at the time is that the Easter date has something to do with the moon. You can read more about early and late Easters and the moon here.

At any rate, we had a nice day for Easter 2008--even if it was early. It was much warmer than last year, when we had record lows in Atlanta.

Here are a few pictures from our church Easter egg hunt. We didn't find any eggs, but that's OK. By the time we got there, all the eggs were gone--but we brought our own. We weren't, as a guy in our Sunday school class put it, "hard-core." Luann happened to be running in the park that day and came over with Trey to join us. Lu's running a half-marathon soon!