Scenes from the Mead Road Mardi Gras Parade
Kate Galatas (left) and her husband Blane march down Oakview Road. File Photo by Jonathan Phillips
The Mead Road Mardi Gras Parade returned on Saturday, Feb. 7.
The parade began in 2005. This year it ended with a dinner of red beans and rice, chicken and sausage gumbo and jambalaya at the Imperial. Proceeds from the food and beer sales went to the Decatur Education Foundation to fund music grants for city schools.
Decaturish photographer Jonathan Phillips dropped by and sent us these pictures.
Eddie Galatas (right) hands a pile of beads to Courtney Goetzel and her son Miles as they watch the Mead Road Mardi Gras parade pass by on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Kate Galatas (left) and her husband Blane march down Oakview Road. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Michelle Cullen (right) marches down Oakview Road. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Bo Emerson (center) plays the trumpet as he marches down Oakview Road. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Jake Cooper (center) plays the trumpet as he marches down Oakview Road. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
John Moredock (left) blasts his trumpet to start off the Mead Road Mardi Gras Parade. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Mike Murphy (right) lifts his daughter Teagan into a crawfish boiling pot. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Madison Harvey (right) gets help putting on her mask from her step father Johnny Langford. Photo by Jonathan Phillips
Maya Deodhar (center) gets her face painted as she prepares for the start of the Mead Road Mardi Gras parade in Decatur on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Photo by: Jonathan Phillips