Finally. I went to the annual National Western Stock Show kickoff parade through downtown Denver. The weather was beautiful and unseasonably warm. I had no other obligations. It was my kind of parade: lots of animals, and not enormously long.

And I had my brand new camera, about which I’m squeaking with joy. I took an unreasonable number of photos at the parade, and have posted a fraction of them in an album on zenfolio.

After I got home yesterday I learned that the night before when I carefully went through all the camera setup steps – I’d entered the wrong date. So all the pictures from yesterday show in my zenfolio album as having been taken today. Oops. On the other hand they show as having been uploaded the day before they were taken. Which is kind of gratifying for a world class procrastinator.

After the parade I walked down the 16th Street Mall, and on an impulse went into the Visit Denver info center at 16th and California. I was looking for a printed map of Denver’s city (and mountain) parks, but not expecting much. Happy surprise, they’d just received a shipment of new updated maps from Parks & Rec. Now I just need to pick out 35 of those parks for my assignment.