This is the last of my posts on the 2008 Easter Parade. I ended my last one saying that there was a certain regularity to the process: spot, approach, and take a picture. True enough, but it’s a light-hearted affair and everyone seems to enjoy it. The young ladies above were delightful. I had taken [...]
Archive for March 2008
Easter Parade in NYC Part 3 of 3
March 26, 2008Easter Parade in NYC Part 2 of 3
March 25, 2008More pictures from my 2008 Easter Parade wanderings on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The above was one of the few “grand but weird” hats. They just didn’t seem to be as numerous as usual. Maybe I left too early for others, but I don’t think so. There were some, though. The picture below captures some [...]
Easter Parade in NYC Part 1 of 3
March 24, 2008Every Easter, at least every Easter for the past three years, I’ve been out to the “Easter Parade”. It isn’t a real parade. Or, if you prefer, it is the most democratic parade there is. Everyone is part of it. And anyone can be a star. That isn’t any sort of exaggeration. If you want 15 [...]
Easter Day
March 23, 2008It’s Easter, the day that we celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. The Lord is Risen, indeed. At the heart of the Episcopal worship is the Prayer Book. The 1866 version of the Book of Common Prayer has the Easter Anthem: CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us : therefore let us keep the feast; Not with the [...]
Tibitan Protest on 2nd Avenue
March 22, 2008I’ve been under the weather recently and was recovering nicely, but still hadn’t stepped out of my place all day today. And then I heard whistles and shouting coming from the direction of Second Avenue and 42nd Street. I have a very minor view of the street from my window and peered out, knowing I’d [...]
