• Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade volunteer Kelly Murphy marches alongside the South East High School band Saturday. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
    Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade volunteer Kelly Murphy marches alongside the South East High School band Saturday. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Queen Zoë Burritt is flanked by her court on the Flower Festival Parade float on Saturday morning. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Sporting plenty of flowers, the International Order of Odd Fellows entry in the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade reflects the theme “All That Jazz.” (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • The River Bottom Boys — including women — drive tractors along the parade route. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Alley Project dancers perform on the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade route. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • A horse-drawn wagon carryies Santa Maria Elks Lodge officers in the Lompoc Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Perennial parade volunteer Kelly Murphy marched, danced and cheered alongside entries, even bravely trying to copy gymnasts performing the splits. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Bella Muro, 4, of Lompoc, dances with the Alley Project entry in the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Bubble guns fill the sky with fun Saturday at the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Garcia Dance Studio members perform along the parade route. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • The back of the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Queen’s float spells out the 2016 theme, “All That Jazz.” (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • A Vandenberg Air Force Base Honor Guard marches ahead of the car carrying Air Force Col. J. Christopher Moss on Saturday. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • The parade route was packed with spectators. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Michael B. Clayton rides Lady Justice in the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Jerry Hernandez portrays a padre with La Purisima Mission docents in the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • St. Paul’s Lutheran Church band members from Orange donned shirts with flowers for the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival Parade. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)

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