I swear she wasn't there when I snapped this photo of Buck. We were about to step into Eat! -- a new restaurant in downtown Pensacola-- where we were meeting friends to celebrate Buck's birthday.
Pensacola's annual Christmas parade was in full sway. The streets were jammed with party folk of all ages. Floats passed by right in front of the restaurant. Costumed characters threw beads and candy to screaming kids. A gaudy, raucous, music-filled parade was just the medicine this year, following closely on Hurricane Ivan's destruction barely two months before. This was a happy, if slightly hysterical, crowd.
But I swear, that woman wasn't there when I took the picture. Maybe she is the ghost of Buck's "inner blonde!"
. . . from The Lost Posts Archive. I'll leave it here for a week or so, and then slip it onto the proper virtual shelf, which is December 13, 2004 07:59 AM.
