All dressed up for the parade

My mom liked to dress up...she was 9 for this queenly looking costume...

I'm sharing this for Nov 29 Sepia Saturday
which shows a float and some girls dressed as swans, as well as a Swan Maiden on the float.
Details are:

As a general rule, if you take a daft photograph and then let it soak up eighty years of history it will become even dafter. This is certainly true of this 1930 photograph of the Swan Maiden's Carriage at the Grace Brothers Ball in Sydney, Australia. Grace Brothers were - believe it or not - a famous Department Store, and the strange scene depicted in this photograph (which comes to us by way of the Flickr stream of the Powerhouse Museum) is as strange as anything you might have seen in an episode of "Are You Being Served?". Possible themes for Sepia Saturday 256 include festivals, floats, feathers and fair maidens.

Come over the the Sepia Saturday site and look at other submissions to this theme..

Here my mother dresses up again, pretending to be a bit older than her 12 years.

And when she was a bit older, she was involved with this company of the ROTC...but I don't believe she was depicted here.  However, that's the recently built Thomas Jefferson Highschool of San Antonio, Texas from 1934.  I've posted more pictures of the ROTC companies as well as my mother's various uniforms before HERE.

Some rocks and mountains

Sepia Saturday for this week (click on the link to see lots of other fun postings, maybe on theme, maybe not. (look at links at bottom of their page for the other posts, usually a lot by Sat!)

Well, living near the Blue Ridge Parkway, in North Carolina, I chose to share some of the views I've seen there.  Maybe some rocks too.  Sorry, no musicians.

Arlene in the Big Ivy area in Pisgah National Forest (she's an artist).

Below a view of the Black Mountains from the Blue Ridge Parkway

And remembering to have a foreground with some rocks (and branches too) looking across the actual Blue Ridge Parkway down to Burnett Reservoir, the source of Asheville's water.  (Alan Burnett, I have to wonder if any of your cousins might have something named after them in America, though I actually don't know who the reservoir was named after, though I found another Burnett Reservoir in Mississippi.  No help there.)

 A winter scene of the Little River as it flows towards Hooker Falls near Brevard.  (I think that's the name of the river, so if I'm wrong, please let me know!)

In April, 2012 I was able to see this waterfall, way across a valley, with just my zoom on my little Nikon CookPix.  It's not visible in the summertime.  And of course if I'd had the telescope like the gentlemen on Sepia Saturday, I might have seen much more! 

And being very civilized, the Blue Ridge Parkway tells us just what we're looking at.