It seems quite unbelievable to me that I have never attended the Lilac Festival parade, but in fact, I have not. Even though we’ve lived near the parade route for over 30 years. On Saturday I joined Matt, Betsy, Skylar, and Ella to watch the parade. It was Skylar’s second year, and she was very anxious for the parade to begin. We had perfect viewing “seats” at the edge of South Avenue, but it was a bit of a wait. Ella started out in the stroller,
but got restless, so Skylar took her for a walk along the edge of the street while we were waiting for the parade to reach us.
The parade was worth the wait. There were policemen and women on horses, marching bands, bagpipes, and many groups including veterans and animal rescue groups hoping that someone in the crowd might adopt one of the dogs. I’m missing photos of the animal rescue folks and the veterans. There were lots of folks on this beautiful day along the parade route, but it didn’t seem particularly crowded until the parade was over, and we all headed for the food tents.
The best of the marching bands!
The drum lines were excellent.
Skylar and I have been talking about making a fairy garden for several months. Saturday we had planned to go to The Artful Fairy in Victor after the parade. When I called to find out if Saturday afternoon would be a good time, I discovered that they had a booth at the lilac festival so we were able to make our fairy garden right there at the park. It was lots of fun and easy to do. She’s very pleased, and the owner told her it was one of the nicest she’d seen and took a photo of it for the business!
The plants are real and we purchased the fairy, her bench and the bridge. The rest of the decorations were free—blue stones, shells, pebbles, and sphagnum moss. We also purchased a vial of “fairy dust” (aka silver glitter which really finished it off.) I’m surprised the glitter doesn’t show in the photo—the bridge is covered with it in real life!
Waving to Sian and others posting about new ventures over the weekend.
Oh, how sweet is that fairy garden! I’d have been queuing up to make one if I’d been there 🙂
I’m sure the lilacs are beautiful..but they have very strong competition from those two lovely, lovely girls. They are pretty as a picture, the pair of them
Your granddaughters look so cute in their outfits. Marching bands in kilts, people on horses, a perfect parade. Oh yes the Fairy gardens are SO popular right now, I want to join Skylar & make one myself – like the idea of Fairy Dust.
What a lovely post Karen!
Love your fairy gardens and enjoyed the pictures of the parade.
Thank You~
I do love a good parade with lots of bands and the fairy garden is magical – what a great idea
How lovely having the girls in matching outfits – used to love that as a child! The parade looks really professional – smartly dressed participants and I bet the bands sounded great. I ask myself what a lilac festival actually is…
I love seeing the girls in matching outfits seems a few years since mine would do that. I too would like to know more about a lilac festival. The bands look very smart. Worth the wait by the look of it.
The girls are adorable and the parade sounds wonderful! Looks like perfect weather too! TFS
The girls are getting so big . . . they are precious! What a great parade!
Love the photo of the little girls in matching outfilts, on their walk, especially the little one with the pacifier – my great grand nephew is still stuck on his too. Skylar is quite artistic. How fortunate to have the shoppe right at the festival.
Cheers~
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