What an absolutely glorious day for an Easter Parade! Not too hot, not too cold, not windy, just sunny and warm. The weather brought out thousands of parade walkers and watchers.
The Easter Parade is unlike any other parade in New York City. There are no restrictions, guidelines, leaders or such. It’s day to parade down Fifth Avenue (well for about 8 blocks) wearing your going-to-church finery, your Easter bonnet. Actually that was the original concept way back when, now there are aspects of it that are circus-like but what do you expect, it IS New York.
Well off to the Parade we went about noon, Peter, my son, Joel and myself. We were dressed up and if I do say so myself, my hat looked great. We had our picture taken, and taken and taken. This really cracked Joel up; He’s a photographer so when person after person asked us if we would pose for a photo, he started taking pictures of people taking our photo!
I didn’t take as many pictures as usual because for some reason, I kept getting my camera tangled up with my pocketbook and the whole situation was awkward. I have a couple to post and hope to have some of Joel’s photos to post tomorrow.
Debbie, Joel and Peter
Yes those are real feathers!
As Yellow as an Easter Peep
Me, Matthew, Michele and Peter "on the Avenue"
Make Music in the Park
Bill Ding and his band of clowns are the security patrol for this blog site. He is a favorite toy from the 50*s. By the way sometimes a blog is just an ego-maniacal stream of conscience.
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Flags At Half-Mast in New Jersey!? What is he thinking?
Posted in BY THE WAY, From My Point of View - Personal commentary on Movies and Books, tagged Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie, Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, Half-staff, Houston, Jersey, Kevin Spacey, New Jersey, United States, Whitney Houston on February 15, 2012| 5 Comments »
Governor Chris Christie has ordered that all flags in New Jersey be flown at half-mast the day of Whitney Houston’s funeral! OMG! Are you kidding me?
I believe flags should be flown half-mast for heroes and very important public officials of the state. I think Whitney Houston was beautiful, talented, probably a kind and loving person BUT I do not want my grandchildren to think she was a hero! She was a drug addict and you can call it a disease and that’s fine with me BUT it is not a disease that you contract like polio or cancer! It is a self-induced, self-inflicted affliction and the sick person has to own that. I tried to teach my own children to be responsible for their own actions and that every action has a consequence (good or bad).
So Governor Christie thinks she’s an icon of the state; That’s interesting, I never even knew she was from New Jersey and I have lived in the tri-state area my whole life. Sadly, more people associate Snooki from the show Jersey Shore as an icon and she doesn’t even come from New Jersey. I know Frank Sinatra came from New Jersey and that Bruce Springsteen comes from New Jersey. I loved
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songs, I loved that he was Italian (as I am) and that he came from Hoboken, like my grandmother did but he was certainly no hero! Whitney Houston is NOT a hero; She was a fantastic singer/entertainer with a remarkable God-given gift and unfortunately for her and us, she took her own life and has robbed us of her gift.
I certainly hope no other celebrity dies soon, as I cherish their talents more and more each year as yet another and another slips away. New Jersey has been the birthplace of so much talent that if we were to fly the flags at half-mast each time one of them died, we would hardly have full mast flown flags. Here’s just a handful of New Jersey born celebrities:
Bruce Sprinsteen: 1949
Jon Bon Jovi: 1962
Kevin Spacey: 1959
Meryl Streep: 1949
Judy Blume: 1938
Joe Piscapo: 1951
David Copperfield: 1956
Dionne Warwick: 1940
Ray Liotta: 1954
Jerry Lewis: 1926
Ice-T: 1958
Jack Nicholson: 1937
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