Every year we hide Easter Eggs in www.mcclear.net.  An Easter Egg is a hidden webpage that has no visible link to anything else in the web site.  You can find an Easter Egg by moving your curser across a page.  When the arrow becomes a pointing finger and there is no other indication that there is a link, like an underlined word, you have probably found an Easter Egg.  Last year’s Easter Egg hunt backfired.  An Easter Egg became the most visited page on this site.  It is entitled “Welcome to Belgrade Minnesota.”  It was a picture of the Belgrade, Minnesota water tower.  It was linked to the word “Belgrade” in the text on several pages.  The Google search engine found it and sent  people who wanted information on Belgrade, Minnesota directly to our Easter Egg.  We have learned our lesson and put some return links on the bottom of our Easter Eggs.  Some Easter Eggs are, in fact, Easter Eggs-- pictures of eggs we have found on our travels.  There are Serbian Easter Eggs, Croatian Easter Eggs, American Easter Eggs, and Slovak Easter Eggs.  Milulas “Mickey” Derevjanik, on the right, is a Slovak craftsman, a metal worker, who designs Easter Eggs wrapped in wire.  He comes from generations of metal workers who wandered from the Balkans to Central Europe and is proud of his craft.  (He is also a TV manager and engineer.)  Some of his eggs are hidden in this web site.  One Easter Egg is the site for our cat, Pest.  Others include a funny cartoon of former Serbian President Milosevic.  We have a web page on whimsy and we have hidden links that will spin you off into cyberspace to a link we find amusing or ironic.  Don’t worry, this is a family site, we wouldn’t send you to a porn site.  And we still have Belgrade, Minnesota hidden somewhere, or rather several somewheres, in the site.  Or you could cheat and use Google.  And oh, here’s a hint.   If you see a word that is slightly off color, click on it, you might find an Easter Egg.  We have even hidden some Easter Eggs on this page.  Enjoy the hunt.

We have included some photos of Easter Markets and celebrations leading up to Easter below.  First, Bratislava Slovakia's Carnival Celebrations.  You can click on the thumbnails to get a bigger picture, or perhaps find an Easter Egg.

Here are pictures of the Palm Sunday market in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Palm Sunday in Belgrade, Serbia.  The woman is selling Easter Eggs as are the kids.  Note the wreaths around the heads of the little girls driving the toy cars.

Easter Eggs in the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kotor, Montenegro.  A smiling priest invited us in as we walked by the church, uncertain whether to walk in. Take a blessing, take an egg.  Below, Easter eggs in Prcanj near Kotor. 

Finally, the Palm Sunday market in Zagreb, Croatia.