Yup, old-timers bite the dust (rot, and get scary, inducing kids to beg for chocolate to relieve the stress), and Jesus brings easter eggs.
Those are the pagan exigencies represented by the holidays. Fall is to death what spring is to life. Halloween effectively represents the harvest, death, the coming of winter, and all the uncertainty ice age winters brought to our neolithic relatives. At the polar opposite, spring represents life and rebirth, aptly symbolized by the egg; which, I don't recall any reference to in the new testement: because it's another pre-biblical, pagan symbol of an equinox.
I guess it's not too soon to talk about Christmas either. December 25th isn't Jesus' birthday, but a more ancient solstice holiday that was represented by the Saturninas festival in Rome, at the time Christianity was adopted as an official religion under Constantine.
We may have Walmarts, bigscreen TVs, and the web, but we still hop to the tune of the earth's seasons, like our animal skin clad, drug taking, god fearing cousins of the past did; as far as the holidays are concerened at least.