Saturday, January 3, 2009

First Night in St. Petersburg

We didn't have any trouble deciding what to do for New Year's Eve 2008. St. Petersburg has a nonprofit dedicated to bringing us entertainment and revelry as we greet the new year -First Night. It's true. It was no spectacular, but it was fun and walkable and kept us busy. The button with flashing lights meant we were supportive $$. Williams Park had shadow-light-show partitions where one could display personal interpretations of the music and so of course I did.

Live music was everywhere inside and out. We visited two churches. Watching people move in and out was as interesting as our morning beach walks. The tide came in, the tide went out, and throughout we witnessed not a menagerie of shells, plants and animals, but instead all sorts of people dressed all sorts of ways and in all sorts of moods.

Rich took this fabulous picture of the band. There was a blues band playing complete with a blind, black vocalist. That man sure did like to pose for pictures!


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