This past Sunday was the annual Collegedale Christmas parade.  It seems to grow larger each year with more people lining the streets to view it.  No, it's not Macy's, but, it is something the little community has a lot of pride in and puts a lot of energy into. 

There are floats; usually farm and landscape trailers decorated for the holidays with neighborhood kids aboard.  The there are the vintage cars all decorated for the holidays.  Of course there is the beauty queen; usually a local high school girl that was homecoming queen or some such thing.  I wonder if they will ever let a boy be the parade queen?  Of course there are the high schol bands and the local politicians walking down pison Pike and Little Debbie Parkway.  The floats and exhibits are sponsored by local businesses such as Steve Ray's Midnite Oil and quite actually their amature character puts one in mind of something straight out of ANdy Griffith.  (I was naughty this year and became preoccupied with something else and didn't get pictures.  Sorry!)