When they say it’s one of the shortest events you’ll ever attend, they mean it. This morning was the Spring Candy and Egg “Hunt” at Ballard and Loyal Heights Community Centers. We put “hunt” in parenthesis, because it’s really more of a dash. Or a scramble. To the photographic evidence:

Kids and their parents wait in anticipation around the perimeter of the lawn in front of the Loyal Heights Community Center. Plastic eggs are scattered throughout the grass in plain view. They’re… so… close.

After what seems like forever, they’re off!

No egg is safe.

About 30 seconds later, the lawn is picked clean. Kids pack up their loot, get their photos taken and rush home to crack into a morning sugar high.