I went to another parade today. It was the annual St Patrick's Day Parade in the Saintly City. It was somewhat cooler than the Tampa Rays parade in Punta Gorda and there were more people in attendance, but a parade is a parade. A bunch of bands, local politicians, and a lot of people who want to be seen in a parade showed up. There were people giving away cheap green necklaces and penny candies to kids. They were mainly marching with their families and clans, which is pretty cool, but parades get boring pretty fast. The mayor of St Paul, Chis Coleman, an Irish guy was there wearing his green. This parade had something that the Punta Gorda event did not. Guys wearing skirts. Well, kilts.
I got to the parade by parking near Harriet Island and hiking across the Wabasha Street bridge. The warm weather has melted all the river ice, but there was a pretty brisk wind on the bridge to remind me that it is still March, still three days before the vernal equinox. On the way home I took a photo of the Mississippi River looking upriver towards the High Bridge from atop the Wabasha Street bridge. Most of the green in town was being worn by the Irish folk and there wasn't much left for the bushes and trees, but their time is not so far off.
It was a day of rest from the interminable tennis wars.
It was a day of rest from the interminable tennis wars.
3 comments:
Ah, parades. Any fat chicks on recumbent bikes? A warm day for March 17 on the Tundra, but the sun hasn't been able to warm the ground or the water yet, so the wind has a cold edge to it. 65 in Florida and 65 in Holland/St. Paul feel very different.
No fat chicks on any kind of bikes, but there was a small lap dog who had been dyed completely green. And a couple of those groups of guys with a blanket or something throwing nubile young women skyward. Very entertaining for the crowd who likes these kind of parades. TT
That can't be good for the dog. Local tastes may differ -- I've seen a couple of parades in Auckland and there were people riding on motorized toilets in both of them. Not something I've seen in parades here.
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