I'm sure your 4th was festive, that is if you live in the States.
I headed down to Houston Wednesday morning. Mostly to help my sister Nita later in the week, after she had foot surgery, but also to see the spectacular fireworks shows put on by her neighbors. Houston has some crazy laws when it comes to fireworks. You can be arrested and fined huge amounts for buying fireworks and bringing them back within the Houston City Limits. But outside the city limit line.... seems like anything goes.
You'll see huge firework warehouses and stands set up in grocery store parking lots, right in the middle of a business or residential area. Where we grew up you had to drive to the boonies to find a stand to buy them and then you had to know someone who had property out in the boonies to set them off, or you could go to the nearest caleche pit to blow up your hard earned paycheck. It's pretty much the same here in the county where we live. You buy them in the boonies and fire them off in the boonies. The nearest stand is about 10 miles from our house.
At Nita's you buy them around the corner and shoot them off in your driveway! So that's pretty much how it went down. Nita's next door neighbors, S and B had already burned up a few hundred on the Saturday before and then dropped $$$ for the actual 4th. We sat in Nita's driveway with our glasses of wine and proceeded to get a crick in our neck from looking straight up.
I'm not a photographer as you probably know by now, but Nita managed to get a few good shots.
The pyromaniacs prepare....
This wasn't the whole weekend.... to be continued.
4 comments:
Love your pictures. We didn't do fireworks this year but in the most recent years we did them in the street and always, as preplanned, we would blow up a mailbox! We would chose the one that needed replacing anyway, buy a new one before and have it ready to replace the next morning. I missed that this year!
That's quiet a complement coming from you, thanks! We ended up with two big trash cans full of blown up bits and boxes.
I remember Houston fireworks. We were in Humble/Atascocita and the neighbors would get together and have a ball in the street. Between the 3 families we had 6 boys and the 3 daddy-boys so we made quite a mess. The dads were always out in the street about midnight with the push brooms cleaning up the mess. Good times.
I guess when we lived down there (in Tomball) they had laws against it. And where we lived was totally in the woods and there was no way you could have kept the whole place from going up in a flash, so we usually drove over to the exhibition put on by the VFW or the Elks or the professionals. BTW, I was the one with the push broom after it was over.
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