Yes, more parade photos than you can shake an extinguished roman candle at (about 170 of them!) are up on the web for your perusal.  Hundreds of people attended or walked in this year’s parade, and most of them got their face and GPS coordinates immortalized on Flickr.  Take a look, tag the ones you recognize, and share with freinds.

You can click on this link or paste the url below into your brower:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceansidescribe/sets/72157620942675737/

I had fun seeing neighbors and taking photos again at our Oceanside-Netarts Fourth of July Community Parade.  I like to put emphasis on the word community, because it’s so much fun to see everyone and their brother, and their kids turn out.

I’ve selected a few favorites to share here, check back in a few days and I’ll provide a link to another two hundred I took of the event and the crowd on Flickr.

If you around for the parade the last few years and have not seen them yet, you can find photos of 2007 and 2008 on my flickr stream.

As you can see from today’s new header, we had another crowd-pleasing parade, plus fog.  More photos tomorrow; the sun is burning through outside and I’m about to join.  Hope your weekend is full of friends and family, plus a special Happy Birthday to my son-in-law Ameer!

I had a great time exhibiting at the Memorial Day Art show – I should say that even more so than having some photos displayed, I am glad for the artists whose work I’d admired but had never really met and for the insights they shared on the work they create; for a  chance to see what people found appealing – or not – about some of the work I’ve done; for time with neighbors to talk about community.  Thanks to Kay and Charlie Wooldridge for all the work they put into organizing the event and the team of volunteers who came early/lingered late to set up and clean up the remains of the day.

Some final pics from Sunday (full gallery at Flicker).

The Oceanside community Memorial Day Art Show & Sale opens for its second and last show for this event on Sunday May 23rd at 10 a.m. until 5 p.m..  Here are some snapshots from the Saturday event, busy! and fun.  More photos are available on Flicker.