So today was the day the USA folk celebrate their country. Mostly, I think it’s just an excuse to not work, eat lots of food and party…we love excuses to do those things. Whatever you were doing to celebrate, I hope it was fun. Usually we don’t go to see firework shows because parking/crowds make it not worthwhile, but this year we actually got to see some decent fireworks.

We had forgotten that this city we moved to has their official fireworks display not too far away from our street - across the freeway, closer to the Bay, but not too far in terms of miles. The loud constant booms we heard tonight reminded us, and we left out house to walk to the end of the street. Except for a building that blocked the view a tad, we could seem them quite well, and they were fairly large in the sky. These pics aren’t very good…shutter speed was too slow, I was hand-holding, etc. But I kinda like them anyway, showing the smoke trails and such. The bottom photo was fiddled brightness-wise a lot, so you could better see the top of the building (and wires) that were in the way of our view. Not they were really in the way while watching - just for taking photos. hehe