i have intended to post an annotated pictorial on yesterday’s parade in the Sonoma Plaza, but i am not sure if i will ever get to it. We hit the road this morning for  our drive back to the Southwest corner with a stop in Santa Barbara tonight and dinner with another close friend from Vanderbilt days.

But there was one photo of a parade moment that captured me. As the beautiful horses were doing their struts for a slew of Vaqueros, there was one near the rear who had checked out. His father, one could tell, was a caring man: