Why so late, Easter?

Turns out that 2011 is one of those years when Easter, still following the lunar calendar, is very late in April. In fact, it is one day less than the latest day it can ever be (April 25). In some ways, having a late Easter is a good thing: long days, warm weather and flowers blooming. But in other ways it's not--mostly because a late Easter means a late Lent.

Personally, I'd just as soon get through Lent before Spring arrives. Wasting all those dark dreary days in Ordinary time is just that, a waste. So here's my solution: forget the Moon. Make Easter, the first Sunday after Spring Equinox. It will still be a moveable feast but not so moveable that you can't count on it being with a ten day period every year. Of course, the real difficulty would be getting the Jews to go along with a shift in Passover.