Memorial Day

 Every town loves a parade and this goes for Calais, too, especially on Memorial Day. The parade starts at the Post Office, down the hill and takes a left turn to the bridge.

 Following the color guard are Army vehicles from somewhere, maybe they're National Guard.

 Then there are some members of the VFW, American Legion and some members of police and/or highway patrol.

They are followed by the Calais High School Marching Band and lastly is an EMS truck.

The band is really good playing all of the armed services tunes and the regular patriotic music.

The band uniforms are blue jeans and dark blue high school colored T-shirts.

At the bridge the parade stops except for the grand marshal and the color guard.

 The American group goes to the middle of the bridge and faces right waiting for the Canadian color guard and officials to march out and face left.

Both sides say a few words for the departed veterans and then each side throws a wreath into the river (right side over the railing).

The American soldiers fire three shots in memory of the deceased veterans and the  bugler on the bank of the river plays taps. Everyone then marches back to respective side and the parade marches back top more tunes from the bank. Very Touching!

Walking back to our car we passed this sign and notice the bottom left - that's a East Coast Greenway sticker. Aren't we part of that back in  Fernandina Beach?

 Almost every village and town that we drove through has a library and again, Calais is no exception. This is one of the nicest library buildings, built in 1892. Shadow liked it, too. And behind this building is a newer addition to the library.

Today was the second day with temperatures in the 80's. Not sure how long it will last but we're finally thawing out.

We still may be a couple of weeks away from full leafage on the trees but this is what we are starting to see.

I call it a Idunnowhatitiseeither.

Lastly, tomorrow we are driving across the bridge into Canada and even though we paid for AT&T Global passport, phone calls will cost a dollar a minute so please don't call. We think we can text and email and we downloaded an app for finding "hot spots" along our way Canada so there might even be a blog.

If everything fails we should be back in the US in 2 - 3 weeks.