Make way for ducklings - and their parents

Today was Mother's Day, so that means it was also the annual "Make Way for Ducklings" parade from the Common to the Public Garden by way of Beacon Hill. As always, there were scads of impossibly cute kids dressed as ducks (with the odd Officer Mike thrown in - including one actual member of Boston's Finest who, dressed in an old BPD uniform, helped get the ducks across Beacon Street today). And as the Harvard Marching Band approached Beacon Street, they sang out a song whose lyrics seemed to be: "Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!"

Perhaps it was my imagination, but it seemed like more parents got dressed up this year: