Good Bye, St. Patrick's Parade, Until Next Year !

The Buzz Bike

The Best Bike in the World!

A year-after-year crowd pleaser!

The end of the train of parade pictures. This is it until next year's parade. It is to be hoped that all y'all enjoyed the images from Greenville Avenue from behind the barricades like most folks!  Even my barricade neighbor could not hold back his love for the Budweiser Trucks!

Next year, I want to ride the Buzz Bike and take pictures of the crowds!




 

Friends and Neighbors at the Barricades

My barricade neighbors had a wireless speaker and it provided some pretty cool music  while waiting for the parade.

A bunch of good kids.

Just as you have seat friends when you go to a Mavs game or a Cowboy's game, at a parade, you have neighbors and friends along a barricade. It was lucky for me to have some good neighbors at the St. Patrick's Parade this past Saturday. The sad part is that at the end, they all posed for a group picture. It was one picture too many as I had shot a SD chip and didn't realize until I was on the train that I had missed the best shot! Luckily, I had some candid shots while the crowds pinned us between the sidewalk and the barricade on the street. One of the group does have a group picture----they got on their cell phone. If you e-mail it to me, I'll  post it addendum to this post. Meanwhile, after tonight, I have one last day of images to post.

Yup! It looks just like the image above but it's not!

 

Make Ready for the Parade

Barricades for Greenville Avenue

It's gonna be a good parade this year!

The Touchstone for March 17th. This one is nearly as old as I am!

The flatbed trailers have started to be stationed so that the police line barricades can go up fast and come down fast for Saturday's parade. The weather is gonna be great, but for a photographer, maybe a bit on the warm side. The temp range started out at near 80 degrees but as the models are refined for Saturday, the hi for Saturday is not set for 83*. The kicker is a stiff wind. That means a baseball hat rather than the wide brim fedora (which I prefer). But the aerodynamics in a stiff wind gets that hat airborne quickly. Rather than chase it or loose it, it's just better to reach in the bag and pull out the baseball had. It's gonna be a water jug day, too.

It took a bit to find the lucky charm, but it has been around for a long time so it's retired and awakened every year like a ritual.