The Boots-and-Chutes All Airborne Association marches down H Avenue in Lompoc as part of Saturday’s Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
(Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
La Purisima State Historic Park Docents and Prelado de las Tesoros members join the parade. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
The parade included marching bands from Cabrillo and Lompoc high schools. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
Members of the River Bottom Boys Antique Tractor Club wave to parade watchers. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
The Flower Festival Queen and her court. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
Hannah Rodriguez, 8, waves to Flower Festival Queen and her court. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
Dancers from Garcia Dance Studio twirl down the street. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
(Lara Cooper / Noozhawk) 
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown rides with other members of the sheriff’s Mounted Enforcement Unit in the parade. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
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