NYC Easter parade both elegant and zany

NEW YORK - Bonnets both elegant and zany took center stage at this year's Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue - along with spirited talk about Christ's resurrection and gay marriage.

It was "a real New York spectacle", said John Leone, a Long Island electrician who came on Sunday with his native Ecuadorean wife and two young daughters - and their over-the-top hats.

Victoria Leone, 7, and her 8-year-old sister Valentina wore huge white domes, fashioned from pastel Froot Loops and marshmallow Peeps attached to white plaster that had been shaped around a balloon.