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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

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

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

Monday, April 6, 2015

Easter Sunday at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York City/Photo by Patricia Leslie

St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City can accommodate 3,000 persons, but on Easter Sunday, it was standing room only at the 10:15 a.m. service.

Dollars placed in the collection bags on the crowded day will help the church pay a portion of a massive renovation project estimated to cost $175 million. The building's exterior and stained-glass windows are being cleaned, and improvements to crumbling brick and marble damaged by acid rain are underway. Completion of the project is scheduled for this December, and $100 million has been raised.

James Renwick, Jr. (1818-1895), who designed Washington's Smithsonian "Castle" on the National Mall and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, is best know for St. Patrick's, which he created in the Gothic Revival or neo-Gothic style. The church cornerstone was laid in 1858 but the Civil War caused construction to cease shortly thereafter. It resumed in 1865, and the cathedral was completed in 1878/Photo by Patricia Leslie

While an usher collects donations, the Archbishop of New York, His Eminence, Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, prepares the incense at the 10:15 a.m. Easter Sunday service at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York/Photo by Patricia Leslie

The Archbishop of New York, His Eminence, Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, spreads the Gospel at the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York during the 10:15 a.m. Easter Sunday service/Photo by Patricia Leslie

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York/Photo by Patricia Leslie

The clergy takes a left turn at the rear of the church at the conclusion of the 10:15 a.m. Easter Sunday service at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York. This perspective looks in the main entrance where police blocked latecomers who formed a line for the next service. Standing on church steps, latecomers had an elevated view of the finery in the Easter Parade underway on the street below. Seen on the right is an unknown Chinese message, one of few handwritten signs observed in the area/Photo by Patricia Leslie

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