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From this guy’s pose, I’d reckon he’s played soccer at some time. This isn’t your ‘quarterback’ throwing position, it’s your ‘throw-in from the sidelines’ in soccer throwing position. Clearly this guy has identified someone he knows in the crowd and is about to throw them a whole bag of beads. You have to be on the look-out for things like this. Being hit unexpectedly by a sting of beads can be painful enough, being hit by a whole bag can […]
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.
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. […]
