While on vacation near Branson MO my wife and I took a drive into Arkansas looking for something interesting to see on the fourth. My little agenda was to locate some small town and hope they had a parade. About two hours into the drive we came across Eureka Springs, AR. As luck would have it we were about a half hour early for the town 4th of July parade. With my wife's blessing I was released to photograph the parade and thus checked off a long time desire to shoot a small town 4th of July celebration off my photo-bucket list. As always, very grateful to my wife for putting up with constantly running off to the next shot.