Photo of the Day: Italian-American Pride

A tip of my Irish tweed cap to my many Italian-American friends celebrating Columbus Day! At lunchtime, I ventured out of my Rockefeller Center office to walk east of the Avenue of the Americas, on the stretch of West 48^th Street where various groups were excitedly waiting their turn in the annual Columbus Day Parade. Before long I was snapping away with my camera, recording all kinds of images from the sunlit day, including the one you see here.