As all Fourth of July parades should do it starts with a color guard.
Then the grand marshal
Followed by waves of community groups.
Who says drill teams are dead. This is our local library cart marching and drill team.
Queen City Yacht Club
Town & Country motorized shopping cart for some heavy duty shopping.
M&M Texaco's hydro.
Another group.
Ralph Monroe and his bagpipe band.
Bainbridge Island live-a-board community
The High School Band
The Basset Brigade. I'll tell you the tongues were dragging on this crowd.
Followed by the Portuguese Water Dogs. The black one in the middle is Cooper, a friend of mine.
Mike Hale of Hales Ale, a local resident.
Dixie Land Band
The mature "Easy Rider"
Port Madison got the Best Neighborhood Award
Local gardeners & farmers. This is their truck garden.
This is Ku-tee-ya. Tlingit tribe from Southeast Alaska. Several members live in this area. This is part of a Native American dance group that performs all over the country.
It is not uncommon for those of us involved in boats to take a putt across the pond and stand off the Seattle waterfront and watch the fireworks show in Elliot Bay.
That pretty well wraps things up for another year.
Be seeing you 
