DC Pride 2009 -- the Festival

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, June 14: We go early to see the various booths before the Capital Pride Festival gets too crowded (we're no longer young enough to do crowds). Civil War general George Meade seems to stand watch over the festival:












A parrot and a piper:

We were taken by this 1972 Australian "Moke" and its very charming owner Smitty (left). He's VP of the Straight Eights Region of the Lambda Car Club.

We noticed the horizontal fins on this 1960 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Super: "The top goes down . . . so does it's driver!"; and the vertical fins on the 1961 Lincoln Continental









Festival viewed from I.M. Pei's East Wing of the National Gallery of Art: