Our Santa Parade

Our town always holds its Santa Parade at 5PM on a Saturday in late November. It makes for challenging photography at times, especially when one brings too long of a lens. I found my 70-200mm lens too tight for for most part since we were pretty close to the action. Achieving focus was sometimes a problem, especially on near, quick shots. But it was fun, and I was able to nab a few shots.

This bonnie, wee lass ↑ loved the camera and called excitedly to her parents when I focused on her before the parade began.

Danica, Sue and JJ see the parade nearing. ↓

The candy canes never stopped coming. ↑

A nod to the past with this horse and buggy. ↓

↑ Sparks and Brownies

↓ Citizen of the Year

↑ ↓ The parade would be incomplete without pipers.

This isn't Macy's or Eaton's: ↑ one of our bigger floats. Many are pulled by pickups ... or whatever is at hand. ↓

Most floats or groups were introduced by banners. ↑ ↓

It is Canada, and hockey was well represented. ↑ ↓

Whoville was this year's theme. ↑ ↓

The mutts did their part. ↑ ↓

A fab smile. ↑

The traditional story: definitely not Whoville. ↓

Frosty ↑

The drummer from the high school band. ↓ In a cultural difference from the USA, we don't usually do marching bands in our high schools, so they rode on a float. Some communities do have marching bands, but ours is too small.

Grandma and the kids enjoyed themselves. ↑ ↓

No Santa shot for me. I took some, but they were terrible. Better luck next year.

The week before, we had our annual trimming of the tree at Sha's house. Here is a link to Sue's blog: no sense duplicating. The top two posts are about the tree party.