A couple of shots from the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago. As I am sure most people know, Chicago dyes their river kelly-green on that day. It’s kind of gross.
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I…did not know that about the river. And now I’m kind of simultaneously disgusted/fascinated.
I think the whole simultaneous disgusted/fascinated response is really the only logical response to have!!!
It’s so GROSS and then at moments I’d be like, “Oh, look, pretty green!”
I agree. The green river is off-putting.
Amazingly, the best St. Patty’s day fest I’ve ever been to was in Phoenix. I think it had more to do with the time in my life, but Phoenix has a surprisingly cool festival/field day thing I enjoyed a lot more than a parade.
This may be showing my ignorance,but how on earth do you dye a river green? Doesn’t the colour sort of just…flow away?
Desirae – I honestly don’t know! It is a deep and vivid green – and I’m not sure what happens to it afterward. Because it’s not green all year! Or at least not THAT green!
It’s a very strange effect. Mesmerizing, yet also rather ikky.
That shot of your shoes is fantastic. The texture, the color…wonderful photograph.
I forget what they use to get it green, but I think it’s the plumber’s union that does it, and they dump the stuff in (non-toxic, allegedly) and then these motorboats go racing around churning it up and mixing it in. It was a BIG deal when I was growing up, as was the parade. Like 20-30% of kids wouldn’t even be in school that day (it was not held on a Saturday as it is now, it was on the actual day), because they went or were in the parade.
Ann – thank you for the green-river information!
Did you ever march in the parade with an irish dance group or your tap-dancing troupe or anything like that?