In my hometown we are just a bit earlier than in rest of Germany. Our spring starts on the Sunday called “Laetare”, i.e. the British mother’s da so the photos are from Sunday a week ago.. I’ve shown photos of how winter is burned at the end the parade, today I wanted to show the parade. But spring was in the air which made me unfocussed. I didn’t pay attention and my photos are out of focus. I had inadvertently changed the camera setting to manual focus and they ended up out of focus, some more than others. I’ve tried to do my best to fix them, not very successfully but I wanted to show some of them anyway.

Except for the music groups there are nursery school and primary schools walking (with a few teachers and parents sprinkled in between – the smaller the children, the more more parents, and these days quite a lof dads). About 3000 children and adults were in the parade. Some might consider burning winter as cruel – but he was getting a proper send off.

PS: In German, winter is male (as are spring, summer, and autumn). How do you think of winter in other languages – in French and Italian the gender is also male but how do English speakers feel?

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The First Day of Spring

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