parade

Martin Luther King Jr Parade – San Diego

Stilted

What parade would be complete without people on stilts?

Elvis Lives!

All the local primary schools marched and/or had floats and collected donations in buckets from the parade-watchers.

Marching Bands and Choir

There were a few marching bands in the parade.

Pirate Plymouth

We had chanced upon Plymouth’s Pirate weekend! If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

We didn’t really set out to see the parade, just taking a walk in the park on Thanksgiving morning, but we couldn’t help seeing some of the floats through the trees as we went. Click any image to see them all bigger (mobile device results may vary).

TIL: Thanksgiving Parade

I never noticed before, but to accommodate the Thanksgiving parade floats, all the streetlights are pulled out of the way on the parade route. Here we see the light being pulled back into place. First a guy in a cherry-picker lassos the light, then drops the ropes down to his partner on the ground. Then he loosens the bolts on the lamp post and the partner uses the rope to heave the lights back into position before the bolts are tightened again. Who knew?

Frozen

Jimmy Fallon Takes a Selfie

He was on a float in the Thanksgiving parade in front of the American Museum of Natural History.

Pride Week

Just happened to pass the tail end of this parade during Pride Week at the corners of Greenwich Avenue, Christopher Street and Sixth Avenue. Click any image to see them all larger. Once again, you can see the graininess (digital noise) that I’m fighting with by shooting hand-held at 1/320th of a second at really high ISO (12,800) at night.