New Orleans, Louisiana Spring Festival Parade    March 2000 As we moseyed around the French Quarter we heard approaching bagpipes, and suddenly there was a full blown parade passing by.  Almost fifty photos show the young (and some not so young) women in pastel formals tossing flowers to the spectators as they rode by in antique autos, all the horse and mule drawn carriages in town, and even a fire engine.  The parade was the Spring Festival and in addition to the bagpipes there were multiple New Orleans jazz combos marching and many feathered American Indians on horseback.