Tag:Mardi Gras
As I’ve mentioned before, Mardi Gras is a great family occasion. This image exemplifies that.
This Buffalo Soldier was riding with his colleagues in the leading units of the Krewe of Pontchartrain parade in 2009.
A parade is not a parade without music! Interspersed between the floats are marching bands, in the most part from High Schools. Accompanied by Drill Teams and Dance Teams, these foot-soldiers are granted the, in my view, unenviable task of marching the entire parade route, usually in footwear I certainly wouldn’t care to put on my feet! I admire these kids. At any given time at least one of the bands in the parade will be playing but they don’t […]
2010 was the first year I actually noticed these ‘only in Louisiana’ variations on Old Glory – the flag of the United States. This one was flying from the porch of a house on Napoleon Avenue in New Orleans. I’m fairly sure these flags have passed through my line of vision in prior years also but 2010, following the Saint’s Superbowl win, these flags were in relative abundance along the parade routes to the point they could not be ignored. […]
In this image, an officer of the Endymion Krewe heads towards his horse having secured some prized Endymion footballs for his sons. He holds their hands tightly – it can be easy to become separated in the mass of people.
I thought I lead off with this image of one of the Flambeau carriers from the 2010 Endymion parade. This was taken as the parade was about to set off. This guy was one of a group of about eight, all similarly dressed for their march to the Superdome. The torch is fueled from a propane tank secured to the frame on his back.
