Pocatello's Pioneer Day Parade - A Bit Early

A Target of Opportunity

It had been many years since I attended a Pioneer Day celebration. This one was six days early, but what the heck! The weather was right' the participants seemed to be in the spirit of the thing, and there were things and people of beauty as far as the eye could see. The fact that I had to take these pictures with my phone and then edit them on the computer hours later didn't seem to ruin the overall effect.

The young woman in the yellow who is holding a 5 year old in green is Samantha, daughter of Larry and Wanda Wilde. Larry is one of Sheryl's siblings. Samantha just came home from more than a year as an air traffic controller in Iraq. After this period of leave, it looks like she'll be sent back over there. The kids these days call it being sent "down range." It's a horrid but very apt expression. Down range, after all, is where the bullets impact. Already she has lost friends and co-workers over there. Britney, her 5 year old, hasn't seen her in about a year. She tends to cling to her mom, which seems entirely appropriate to us.

All the cars except the T-bird on top were in today's parade. The T-bird I took as a target of opportunity while walking home last Monday from cleaning up the church building we use. Those T-birds from the early sixties are my idea of what a car should look like. Well, anyway, one of my ideas.