WET, BUT A WINNER PALMDALE EARNS PRIZE ON ITS FIRST TRY.Byline: - Daily News PASADENA - Palmdale's first Tournament of Roses float won the Princesses' Trophy for most beautiful float. Decorated dec·o·rate tr.v. dec·o·rat·ed, dec·o·rat·ing, dec·o·rates 1. To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish. 2. by hundreds of volunteers, the 35-foot-long A Magical Place to Call Home float featured overflowing overflowing cornucopias and a giant fairy with animated wings - incorporating the parade's 2006 theme, ``It's Magical,'' with the city's ``A Place to Call Home'' slogan. The fairy comes from the fairy garden attraction at the city's annual Fall Festival. Four women portrayed fairies named Lavender lavender, common name for any plant of the genus Lavandula, herbs or shrubby plants of the family Labiatae (mint family), most of which are native to the Mediterranean region but naturalized elsewhere. The true lavender (L. Moon, Willow Mist, Buttercup buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Breeze and Autumn Rose from the Fall Festival. The city hired Fiesta Parade Floats, the same Pasadena company that designed and built the independently developed 2005 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley float, to build the 2006 entry. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Palmdale's float, A Magical Place to Call Home, passes empty bleachers and umbrellas Monday on Colorado Boulevard Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. . (2 -- color) Donning rain ponchos and makeshift plastic galoshes, parade spectators on the corner of Lake Avenue and Colorado Boulevard do their best to keep dry Monday. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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