They threw loose rainbow banners, searing the soil but unable to scoop it out.
From the slopes of the mountains came hundreds of riders, bright cloaks streaming behind them like rainbow banners.
Anarchist groups marched alongside church groups with rainbow banners reading "peace" in several languages.
Flags from Sweden, Israel, Italy and Ireland billowed over camps this year, as did rainbow banners and pirate skulls.
Or it might have been Esperanto, while Terra's rainbow banner rippled over your head.
A rainbow banner flies from the porch; a plastic goose and a miniature windmill stand sentry in the pebbled front plot.
A number of our dealers have some rainbow banners on the doors.
As we glance again at the Maypole, a solitary sunbeam is fading from the summit, and leaves only a faint, golden tinge blended with the hues of the rainbow banner.
From the moment the first rainbow banners were hoisted last June, it seemed that the 25th anniversary celebration of the Stonewall uprising would be a hard act to follow.