I know this is after Easter, but I just found this "Easter Egg Tree" article and had to post it. It is amazing and if you look closely on one of the photos you will see a crochet one or tow... :)
A feast for
the Easter Bunny, A German couple decorates their garden tree with almost 10,000 painted
eggs, WOW....German
pensioners Volker and Christa Kraft, have
decorated the tree in
their back garden in Saalfeld for Easter for more than 40
years, The
tree now drips with more than 9,800 colorful Easter eggs, painted
with pastoral scenes and religious icons...Each
egg is painstakingly emptied of yolk and white to ensure it doesn't go bad before it can be hand-painted and
hung, she says that you
can use a syringe to push through just one hole to extract the
gooey stuff but
be cautious when handling raw eggs they may carry
salmonella...
Its the Symbol
of life:
Carefully
packed and intricately decorated Easter eggs lie waiting to be hung from the
Kraft tree
The
egg is a pagan symbol of rebirth, widely used in spring festivals before its
adoption by
early Christians as a symbol of the resurrection of
Jesus, For
followers of Christianity they are symbolic of Christ
rising from his tomb two days after his death on the
cross, In
ancient times the Zoroastrians painted eggs for
Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on spring
equinox
Sculptures
in the ruins of Persepolis, their
capital, show people carrying eggs to their king for the occasion 2500 years
ago
After
their kids moved out of the house, it seemed the Easter Tree would finally catch
a break but
grandsons arrived and the Krafts went back to decorating their
giant tree The
number of Easter eggs hung by the tree’s branches grew every
year and
in 2010 it reached an incredible 9,500 eggs.
**************************************************
