Both the crowd and the number of participants in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade was smaller than normal, perhaps because it was canceled for the last two years. There are usually a few great high school marching bands but there wasn't much beyond this group. You can see how cold it was. Can you play the saxophone while wearing gloves?
March 14 is written as 3.14 in American date notation and,hence, Pi Day. My daughter makes a mean pesto pizza so I thought I'd mix mathematics with yummy flavors.
314 is the old central telephone code for St. Louis and so it's also 314 Day in this area. There were a number of activities to mark the occasion but we went to the symphony. Music director Stéphane Denève opened the program with the Ukrainian national anthem, for which the whole orchestra and audience stood. He concluded with music based on Russian folklore, The Firebird, hoping the harmonious blend of the two would signify something.
Yesterday's post showed a statue in front of our planetarium. The blue structure is the building itself, taken from the other side and some distance away. There are often color and pattern projections on it, and I heard they were doing a blue and yellow theme this weekend. It turned out to be a yellowish sunflower, a Ukrainian national symbol, distorted a bit by the building's shape.
There is a major highway below street level on this side of the planetarium and you could only get a good view of the display by driving past. This was the clearest shot I could get.
Outside the St. Louis Planetarium.
Our huge St. Patrick's Day parade is today and I'll be downtown to shoot it. It will be really cold but my granddaughter Ellie is in it so I'll bundle up.
St. Francis Xavier College Church at St. Louis University. iPhone 12, shot through my windshield as the traffic light changed.
