Saturday morning was the Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade. Lawrence’s parade is a bit unique in that it is all horses — until the very end when the street sweepers make a pass, of course. It was a great morning: blue sky and not too cold. We met friends and followed them back to their house for lunch and conversation. A great day all around.

And some good news this morning — I ran across this article on The Independent’s site reporting that the UK police are to ease their sometimes confrontational approach to photographers. Let’s hope there are more changes in attitude like this to come.

And some less-than-good news — I checked some flight options for an upcoming trip and found the estimated flight times to be around 30 hours. That’s a long time to amuse one’s self in a cramped seat that barely reclines. Guess I’d better dig out my external iPod batteries and find a good paperback or two…