Happy Easter!

It’s hard to believe that it is already Easter in 2026, but indeed, here we are!

I apologize that we don’t have a Spring Eye-Spy puzzle for you today. We hope to work on one a little later this spring, perhaps incorporating spring-into-summer. If you’re looking for our seasonal puzzle and game, you might enjoy some of them from past Easters. You can find them in this list.

Despite no puzzle, I still wanted to drop in and wish you a joyful Easter!

On Easter in different parts of the world (and even among various communities here in America) there is the tradition of the “Paschal Greeting.” Instead of saying “Happy Easter” when you first encounter someone on Easter, you say (in the requisite language), “Christ is Risen!” The person you are greeting responds, “Indeed He is risen!”

This past December (on this trip that I wrote about here), I was standing in front of this small frieze (photo above) on the wall of the church at Ettal Abbey in the Ammergau Alps. As I looked at it, I said out loud, rather matter-of-factly and without any forethought, “Christ is risen!” There was a person standing next to me – a stranger from a different country – and he answered without skipping a beat, Indeed He is risen!

It really is a small world.

This frieze is one from a series of friezes depicting the life of Christ on the sanctuary wall in the church at Ettal Abbey. While they are relatively small in the scheme of things, they are pretty spectacular! They date from the 1700’s, I believe, when the church was Baroque-ified.

I’ll be spending Easter Sunday with family and friends and visitors off and on. If the weather cooperates, we might get up a good Easter egg hunt for the wee folk in the family. And of course, we’ll have a good meal and probably too much chocolate. If there is such a thing.

My contribution to the meal usually involves dessert. This year, I made Medovník – a Czech honey cake – and mini pavlovas.

In fact, I might just skip the lamb and go straight for the dessert.

So that’s our Easter out here in Kansas! My best wishes to you and yours for a similarly pleasant day!

Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!