Winsted seems big on parades (three since we moved here 6 months ago!). Yesyerday was The Rotary Club Pet Parade.
When we'd first seen the posters (hand drawn by school kids) around town we had ideas of joining, with our miniature dachshund Holly in tow. Not that she would have enjoyed it at all. Just a passing thought - we did not enter nor make note of the date, and then while cleaning the kitchen one Saturday morning I said to my husband "Do you hear a marching band? Or is that just in my head??"
We ran to look out the front windows - it was The Pet Parade!
One of the really fun things about living on Main Street is our birds-eye view of parades (reminiscent of my vague early childhood memories, living just off Fifth Avenue) - and other Main Street goings-on (i.e., fender benders, motorcycle clubs passing through, snowplows at 5 a.m...). Parade watching from the comfort of your own home is a good thing!
The parade was broken up into divisions (small pets, large pets, pets on floats... Here, presumably, is the Yellow Lab float which seems to feature a posse of bearded fishermen at rear (?).
Toward the end of the event was one of my favorites - Fairies on Horseback! I love how the horses have wings too - maybe they are horse flies??
My overall fav, however, has got to be this leaping pixie girl - more in the air than not! She and her sisters - followed by their mother (dressed as Farmer McGregor?) pulling a wagon containing flower pots and a large watering can modified to have a screen window through which "Peter Rabbit" could be seen. I'm guess the girls were Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?
We did not travel to the parade end at the Town Green to watch the prizes being awarded, but I hope they got a prize!
Holly was not in the least amused....