Easter is one of those holidays that sneaks up on me, like Arbor Day or Daylight Savings Time. I can’t keep track since I don’t care enough. I just figure someone will tell me when it’s coming up and if I have to do something I will.

Holidays with kids’ activities get people excited if they have kids. Since I don’t, caring is optional.

It was not optional back in the newspaper days. You depended on Easter Egg Hunts to get art for the front page. Hopefully the ad department would get a business to buy a full color ad on the back page. Then your Easter photos would be in color that year. What a treat!

Usually, the Chamber of Commerce put those together, but I’d take a church or a neighborhood association in a pinch. I knew I could get away with kids looking at their baskets pics, but those were boring. You wanted to catch ‘em from in front, running.

I would try to coordinate with the organizer so I could get a good spot, far enough ahead, but once they cut that ribbon or said “go,” it was like the Oklahoma Land Rush. Every kid for him or herself. Not much of a hunt, more of a free for all.

Half the time, they’d all be past me while I was still adjusting the camera and I’d be trying to get ahead of the little tykes, which was impossible.

If I was lucky I’d get one front page worthy pic, then I could get a half-dozen kids counting their eggs/candy that I could run on page 3, which was a chance to get more kids in the paper. You could never get ‘em all in, which is probably why Facebook got us in the end.