Easter Parade On Fifth Avenue

Today I was relatively caught up with things and it was such a beautiful day here that I just had to get out and about. Toni was busy getting her hair done (that will probably be another post in a few days). So I headed over to Fifth Avenue to see for myself what the Easter Parade looked like.

It turns out that it is not really a parade at all but it is actually a teeming mass of people meandering around the street either getting photographed or taking photographs. The Avenue is closed to vehicles from 47th Street to 58th Street, basically from St. Patrick's Cathedral to Central Park. People cook up the largest and the most outlandish hats and bonnets and walk around not in any particular direction as strangers, who did not bother dressing up, ask them to stop and pose...to which they eagerly oblige. It is a perfect symbiotic relationship. Without one group the other group would disappear. By the way, this carries on from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon. MORE PHOTOS

It was amusing but a little of this goes a long way. I was happy to find myself on Central Park South and see all the flowering trees and all the people sitting on the grass and sunning on the large rock outcroppings in the park.