The Mardi Gras parade began with Arlington County Police braving the 20 degree chill as they looped around on their Harley's. Residents and business representatives followed atop decorated floats tossing beads at the crowd. (Click here to catch your own.)This was my first experience with our local Carnival, and I was pleasantly surprised, especially as I glimpsed this Bolivian Oruro mask punctuating the final leg of the forty-five minute procession...a flash of Andean pre-Lenten festivities (inside a truncated version of the Cajun circus) along the streets of Arlington...concentric convolutions of the carnivalesque.
0 comments:
Post a Comment