Tag:parade routes

Just One of the Crowd

Daily Photo – One of the Crowd

You don’t have to get dressed up to enjoy Mardi Gras but I guess there are some that can’t resist. This lady is certainly getting with the program.

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Waiting for a Parade

Daily Photo – Waiting for a Parade

I’d love to know who invented the parade ladder but I suspect that many will claim the title and all will be correct. These six-foot painters ladders have a box mounted on top that you can seat your toddler in.

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Fleur-de-Lys Spangled Banner

Daily Photo – Fleur-de-Lys Spangled Banner

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. […]

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