Rain held off until late in the evening of Day 2 of Windjammers in Boothbay, so the parade with the Land Trust float seen here, stayed together and did not fall apart. For the past two weeks, Dick Palmer, Debbie Moorefield and myself worked to build this float, and were we ever proud! 
Called "Take a Hike", we entered it in the Green category using all recycled or "green" materials, including foam from the YMCA Pool Building project (the osprey, and the fish), foam from dock building (the rocks), and an old dinghy filled with used lobster traps, a kiosk from one of the Land Trusts' sites, etc. We did buy stuffed baby osprey just for the pleasure of having them and now we each have recycled them into our homes. The nest we built with driftwood and sticks from Debbie's collection, tying it together with old lobster line.
It's always a bit anticlimatic after such an effort, but the parade was one of the biggest I've ever been in, and as such was great fun - lots of music and small Shriner cars zooming around, etc. No politicians were in this one which was just as well. That would have reminded me too powerfully of all the parades I used to do with my boys and their father. But it was fun, even knowing that the end of the parade is always every "man" for themselves, and getting home is a trick to get around the rest of the parade.
Summer has officially begun now, and guests are arriving now. I can't wait!
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