Much better news.  In Walla Walla, WA on our Sunday AM walk your dAd and I spotted a martenista hanging from a small tree/large bush outside a dorm on the Whitman College campus.  The bush has huge buds just about to burst so I know it was a martenitsa.  It just brightened up an already beautiful Sunday.

Now I just want to know who had it.  I also need to know if it is only a Bulgarian custom or are there others who would know.