This day just didn't start out right. I had an assignment before the St. Patty's day parade that didn't turnout well at all. A group of scouts were supposed to tour a sugar shack( a place where maple syrup is made from sap), The kids never showed and I wasn't exactly sure what to do. I still needed to take pictures to go with the story on maple syrup that will appear in the Meadville Tribune this week. I took some shots, but was largely disappointed with the whole thing. Then at the parade-- I just didn't feel it. My pictures seemed flat and I just never wrapped my brain around any photographic direction. I got a few photographs that will do the job they need to--including this one of John McCandless wearing over-ized green glasses, but I usually get one photograph from an event like this that I say--yes--thats the one. Today I just didn't--I didn't feel it today--even though I tried. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer