Strawberry Festival Parade

   My town has a festival every year which originally celebrated the strawberry season. Once many fields yielded their luscious red fruit. Now, our berries come from the mainland, but not so far away as California. A parade kicks off the festivities on Saturday.

      We have so many artists, performers, musicians, athletes, and this year I felt the parade showcased these local talents.

   
                            The contrast between the electric cars and the wagon made me smile.

                         If you have ambitions to play the ukelele there is a group for you.

 
The King and Queen of the event were sufficiently sober about representing their kingdom and the children shouted hurray to each new display of color and to the candy, flying throughout the air.

                                          This parade had everything you can possibly imagine.

 
                    As usual, the Thriftway Drill Team showed the respectable use of shopping carts.

   Our favorite, of course, was the float from our own company. Grandchildren and friends were involved with a wonderful presentation.

               Emma reigned as the Sawbones Queen, in her eighties and still employed and loved.

                                    Our granddaughters look so beautiful in blue, don't you think?

   

                   Lastly, the most thought provoking float of all, the ball and chain of public debt.