Photo Gallery: La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float decorating

Float volunteers, with the title of “Decorator,” work in shifts to put natural colors in place over the entire structure of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation and over the week, over 1,200 decorators are scheduled to help.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Rick Boone, of Columbus, OH, Larry Geisz, of Sun City AZ, Joe Passavanti, of Tujunga, and Chuck Everson, of New Orleans, LA work together as a team to put small seeds on the eye of a dog, part of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation. The float team has gotten together to decorate for several years.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Royce Adams, of Dallas, TX does a back bend on the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float she is helping to decorate to go over details beneath the rings of Saturn with John Klapmust, of La Cañada in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Tweezers are used to place a small white piece of rice in the right place of an eye for the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

An illustration of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float that nearly 1,200 volunteers will decorate this week in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Sarah Maciel, of Highland Park, stretches to keep her balance, keep from falling onto the artwork, and to reach a distant detail to apply seeds to the ring of a planet for the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Bobbe Bagarry, of Norwalk, paints glue onto a detail of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

The cramped, joystick guided pilots steering wheel with a tiny window the driver will rely on to guide the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Construction team member Dwight Crumb crawls backward out of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float’s driver’s shoot of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Emily Klapmust, of La Cañada Flintridge, mixes glue she is using to decorate the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Buckets and buckets of purple statice before the color is trimmed from the plant to be used for color on the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Orange lentil and sweet rice on a decoration for the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Dwight Crumb guides a small boy into the cockpit of the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

The hands of Marjorie Everson, of New Orleans and Joanne Farmer, of Castaic, putting on glue and seeds making a label similar to a Campbell’s soup can for the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Young children from the Child Education Center, of La Cañada Flintridge, are given a tour of the city’s Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Rebecca, Aldana, of Glendale, does fine detail work putting black seeds onto a Campbell’s soup-like label for the La Cañada Flintridge Rose Parade float in the parking lot for Flintridge Prep in La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The float theme is “Backyard Rocketeer” and is covered with animation.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)