Showing posts with label Easter bonnets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter bonnets. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Fifth Avenue's 2016 Easter Parade

You think it's easy to wear this thing?  You should try making it.  On Fifth Avenue, Easter morning, March 27, 2016.  

The New York Easter Parade is the greatest fun.  Everyone is happy, smiling, glad to be there in the hum of the crowd where rare glimpses of politicians are allowed. (No wonder everyone is happy!) 

I checked, and the parade is not listed in the New York section of 1000 Places to See Before You Die. It should be.  It lasts about six hours (you don't have to stay for the whole thing), and the participants slowly move south to north on the route, clogged with non-participants/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  On the steps of St. Patrick's on Fifth Avenue/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Okay, all right, one politico (in addition to "Bunnies Against Corporate Greed" which I could not photograph before the wearer disappeared in the crowd).  This woman's "hat" carried the only candidate we saw portrayed all day, New York's favorite son, The Donald.  Said some of the wording: "This is My Wall.  It's Huge.  No One Can Get Through."  "Peak A Boo, Mr. Trump.  It's Me, El Chapo" (Huh? I think the potato head.) "Presenting Donald Trump and His Band Playing Their Hit Song 'Hair.'" In the 2016 Fifth Avenue Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 You think this is a balloon salesman, right?  You are wrong,  That's a hat of many balloons in New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
How about a beard of daffodils?  Yes!  At least, I think that's what they were in New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 All ready for the 1940s in New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade.  His camera case was vintage, too/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 Black Easter? In New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
This is "Coco" getting ready for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade.  There were almost as many dressed dogs in the parade as humans.  Really./Photo by Patricia Leslie
And this is Coco's owner in New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 "I got an itch." Honey, I think you got more than that for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade. Maybe the weight of her hat caused her to lose balance /Photo by Patricia Leslie
Her dress was so tight it was declared off limits on the steps of St. Patrick's for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 He carried a little dog dressed like he was, in pink, in New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade.  There was a contest over who/what was better dressed:  the people or their dogs.  Yes, everything is going to the .../Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 Egads, Donald built hats for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 A gator hatched a few eggs on top of her haid for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade.  The connection?  Maybe she's a Florida fan.  Or, an environmentalist. The gator stayed atop her head and except for  swishing its tail, didn't move much so no one worried about getting bitten.  It was pinned down/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 Yee-haw!  Hopalong Cassidy waited for her hoss at New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 Thank you, Rockefeller Center, for your purty Easter flowers and decorations for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
A smiling and dancing rabbit at Rockefeller Center for New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 The end.  New York's Fifth Avenue 2016 Easter Parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Sunday, April 5, 2015

The 2015 Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York

In your Easter bonnet/Photo by Patricia Leslie
With all the frills upon it (Darling, height means everything in the Easter Parade!)/Photo by Patricia Leslie
You'll be the grandest fellow in the Easter parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
I'll be all in clover/Photo by Patricia Leslie
And when they look you over/Photo by Patricia Leslie
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter parade (See the giant butterfly?)/Photo by Patricia Leslie
On the Avenue (There's a swan in here somewhere)/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Fifth Avenue/Photo by Patricia Leslie
The photographers will snap us/Photo by Patricia Leslie
And you'll find that you're in the rotagravure (?)/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Oh, I could write a sonnet/Photo by Patricia Leslie
About your Easter bonnet/Photo by Patricia Leslie

And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter parade/Photo by Patricia Leslie
In front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York/Photo by Patricia Leslie
In front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York/Photo by Patricia Leslie
In front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York.  He forgot his bunny ears/Photo by Patricia Leslie
In front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York/Photo by Patricia Leslie
A bonnet of recycled magazines/Photo by Patricia Leslie
 
With apologies to Irving Berlin.