You couldn't ask for better weather this weekend to kick off the Dogwood Trails Festival. The weather was near perfect Saturday for the parade, arts and crafts show and all the various church fundraisers timed around the festival's biggest weekend. Pleasant temps, mostly sunny skies and a breeze make it a lot easier to be out there, whether as a visitor strolling along W. Oak Street, a vendor outside selling his/her goods or a reporter walking throughout downtown.
People seemed to enjoy the parade, which was longer than normal, lasting over an hour this time. Lots of cars. Lots and lots and lots of cars. Personally, I'd like to see more groups enter floats, but that's a personal preference, not a knock on the parade. Too bad spring break week coincided with the parade. That probably kept out two, and probably three, of the high school bands normally marching in it. I love to listen to a good band play, and personally, I'd like to see ALL of the area school bands participate. It's a chance to show the community how good your kids are.
A note about the video posted of the parade: I enlisted the help of my 14-year-old son to shoot video while I shot still photos during the parade. A technical problem with the camera -- it shut off when he thought he was filming, and it's happened to me, too -- led to no clips of the first few minutes of the parade, when the Dogwood Queen and court and the Palestine band passed by. Sorry about that. The problem got fixed and we shot more video (mostly, he did) throughout the rest of the parade, as well as the day. I'll be editing and posting festival videos beginning Monday.
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