In and Around Northern Kentucky 2.0: Memorial Day Parade

Who the Heck am I

Welcome to my blog, I ran out of storage space on my last blog so instead of purchasing more space I decided to start another.

Photographing is one of my biggest passions in life. I've been a photographer for 20+ years. Although I have sold some of my work I consider myself an advance amateur. Which means I'm pretty good at pretending to know what I am doing. I arrived from Massachusetts to Northern Kentucky September 16, 2001. I hated it, for months I complained about living here, besides all the redneck jokes I would get there was nothing about Northern Kentucky I enjoyed, when I got over myself I dusted off my camera and headed for the hills, literally, I never fully understood what a beautiful place this is until I was given my first digital camera as a Christmas gift. In all honesty you couldn't get me to move out of this state.

Living so near to Cincinnati (I live right across the river) no other city can offer me more. Art museums, Cincinnati Zoo, symphony, theatre, aquarium, amusement park, Dozens of parks, one of the largest and most amazing firework display in the country and so much more. If you are from the area you know what I am talking about, if you're not, believe me when I say In and Around Northern Kentucky is worth the visit.

I know you will want to check out my other blog, I have shot photographs at the Behringer-Crawford Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Zoo, Creation Museum, Eden Park, Findlay Market, Fountain, Square, Krohn Conservatory, Rabbit Hash, KY, Railway Museum, Smale Park, Spring Grove Cemetery and much more. Just click on the link below.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Memorial Day Parade

While living in Devou Park for as many years as we had it was easy to get to know the park rangers, one in particular is Larry, (photo below). Larry has been a park ranger since they were established in the park, I believe but don't hold me to it that was circa 2004. I tried to run into Larry while still living in the cabin to say goodbye however, the opportunity never came, well talk about a surprise this afternoon when I found Larry parked in front of our yard, he was just as surprised to see me, after telling him how we came about buying a house in Covington I found out that he was waiting to join the Memorial Day Parade, silly me had no idea that in just a few minutes a parade was going to start just 2 blocks from my house. When Larry had to leave I went back home, grabbed my camera and off I went. The parade had a couple of surprises but in reality it was really lacking, it's always fun though to watch the candy being thrown at the kids on the sides of the road, it's like Halloween without having to do any walking or wearing of customs, you get the idea.