"Mardi Gras Make-Believe"

If you can't make it to The Crescent City, you just gotta take your beads, your beer and your enthusiasm to the nearest park and celebrate in your own way, on your own turf. In this case, the Piney Woods of Texas became "party central" for a pre-Lenten blowout. Let's hear it for old-fashioned, down-home creativity.