Happy St. Patrick's Day

[lady_branwyn]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who celebrate.

From the local news:
The city boasts one of the oldest St. Patrick's Day parades in the nation. The first parade took place in 1867. There were no parades downtown between 1913 and 1935 because of the Depression. Huh? *head desk*

I had a lovely visit with my house guest. Among other things, we visited the art musuem and took in an exhibit of illuminated manuscripts. We both had headaches afterwards from squinting! I am fighting the urge to pull out my stash of little tubes of gouache and make bad art. :D

Comments

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

People were too depressed to parade?

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, but the Great Depression did not start in 1913.
That parade is utter insanity. There are 10,000 marchers (including green horses), and 300,000 spectators are expected. The population of the city proper is only 400,000 people.

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day, but, dammit, some squirrel dug up two of the peonies I planted late last fall. Ungrateful creatures, after I fed them all winter.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Squirrels are evil. It's always open season on squirrel-cursing around here.

[avon7.livejournal.com]

Even though I *know* squirrels are evil - I've been bitten by them and climbed by them and my sister and I eventually worked out a system where one feeds the cute little birds and one stands by to repel boarders - I still love them. I buy nuts for them when I'm in London and in Austria pursued (with a camera) black red ones all over the grounds of the emperor's summer palace.

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

I do love squirrels and buy corn and peanuts for them in the winter. Even though they dig up my tulips and peonies and anything else they can find.
There are colonies of black squirrels around here.