The celebration continues

While I'm visiting family in FL...so glad to see them, and to be here in December (you know why!) I do want to keep posting. Why do you think I have a laptop! Here're some oldies you might enjoy.

 

Macy's Parade, 1924 with Central Park Zoo elephants

First balloon animal in Macy's Parade was Felix the Cat. "Floats" may be the theme for my post.

Macy's Parade, 1930

The last float in the Asheville Thanksgiving Parade 2023. Black Mountain had it's Christmas Parade Dec. 2 this year.

I hope all my Sepia Saturday blogging friends have a very Happy Christmas, and a Merry New Year. See you in 2024! (I'll have some blogs here for the non-SS folks)

Sharing with Sepia Saturday for these 2 weeks!  

What somber people in North Carolina in 1956! Goodness!

Note the car for little boy on far left.

About 1916-17 Uncle Chauncey in the Auto, and Junior (my father, George Rogers) wearing a tin pail or such. My father had been born in 1914...So it's a guess as to dates. Chauncey was born in 1912 so they were close in age.

Today's quote:

The gift of disappointment is to bring us into reality so we don’t get stuck in the realm of how things might have been.

Did you watch parades early Thanksgiving?

 I did. Decided that having been asked out for dinner, I didn't have to cook a feast for one. Therefore, a light breakfast and lunch, and could sit and take photos of our local (Asheville) parade, as well as 2 channels of the Macy's Parade.

If you could care less (like I have many years) you can skip to the end. It might be interesting to see the last performer. Talking about the aging population...

Our local news anchorwoman and weatherman. Channel WLOS

There's something more intimate about a man singing and playing a piano on a float right in front of you!

I love closed captions, except when they block off other things. Here's an aerial view of the Santa Claus float as it passes the news cameras at that corner.

Santa and Mrs. Claus, and I don't know about the balloon unicorn!

And to be able to say hi back to the Clauses too!

Then there's the huge crowd in New York City!

A Facebook friend in Tallahassee had a daughter, a band leader in her town in Florida, who played picalo in the Band Leader's Band here.

I haven't seen whatever Baby Yoda was featured in, but I like the idea!

This is as close as the TV and iPhone camera could get to seeing the Radio City Rockettes kicking together!

The Seasame Street float had many of the usual pals.

A really good band from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, from Florida. They had a shooter incident a few years ago.

You may like Santa at the end of a parade these days, but I'll go for Cher. Speaking of how elders are able to keep on performing! (born May 20, 1946)

Today's quote:

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”

 —

Thomas Merton