The National Western Stock Show Parade, which usually takes place on 17th Street in downtown Denver, and is the prelude to the National Western Stock Show's 16 day run at the Denver Coliseum, was canceled this year due to weather concerns. Last year's parade was also canceled, due to Covid-19. It is probably all for the best. I had decided that to get a really great parade photograph - like the ones you see in the Denver Post - I would need to stand in the middle of the street in front of the steers, with Union Station in the background. To do that, I would have had to wear my fake Chicago Daily News (out of business since 1978) press credentials, and most likely would have been either unceremoniously ejected from the area or arrested. The stock show itself will go on as planned, and I still intend to get a photograph of the grand champion steer at the Brown Place Hotel in a few weeks, where it is traditionally invited for high tea each year. Of course, that steer is destined for the slaughterhouse, and high tea is obviously not nearly enough compensation to make it worthwhile. And so for God's sake, make a break for it, guy! And by the way, I took the photograph above back in 2020 from the sidelines. Good enough, but not great.
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