Blue Monday - ♪ I Love a Parade ♫

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I plan to visit every Blue Monday post. I love to see the many shades of blue you find.

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Does anyone remember this song?

♪ I love a parade,the tramping of feet,
I love every beat I hear of a drum.
I love a parade, when I hear a band
I just want to stand and cheer as they come.
That rat-a tat-tat, the blare of a horn.
That rat-a tat-tat, a bright uniform;
The sight of a drill will give me a thrill,
I thrill at the skill of everything military.
I love a parade, a handful of vets,
A line of cadets or any brigade,
For I love a parade. ♫

Tampa is being invaded by pirates!
Folks dress up in pirate costumes and have a fun time.
Gasparilla is an annual celebration in Tampa.
Note the many examples of blues.

Guns explode! You can almost hear the booms and smell the smoke.

After landing, swarthy swashbucklers invade the city,  parade down Bayshore Boulevard,
throw treasure (beads) to the crowd, and dance with joy.

Beads are one of the main attractions as they are thrown to the crowd.
(It's not like Mardi Gras; you don't have to lift your shirt to get beads.)
Blue skies smile on more than 250,000 people.

I love parades; however, I did not go. I really don't like crowds, so I stayed home and watched on TV.
The following two fuzzy pictures are from my television.
(They're fuzzy because the parade was moving.)

Here's TV reporter Sean Daly with Florida's Governor Scott.

I think that I had a much better view!  How do you prefer to watch a parade?


Happy Blue Monday!