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bunnyhugger informs me that I was wrong about Crystal having somehow moved where her stick was hanging. She had moved it for Crystal so the mouse could more practically get at some of the last bits of its treats. Well, she's still an industrious mouse, hard at work on whatever her goal is exactly.
Past that, no time to write because it's been a full weekend. Please instead enjoy a more-than-double dose of pictures from the 3rd of July last year.
Back at her parents' home, setting off store-bought fireworks. Surely nothing bad can come of fun little displays like this?
And here's what a similar shower looks like in the Fireworks mode on my camera.
A couple shot up way high and my camera didn't know where to focus.
And some got up high enough and colorful enough to draw applause!
I have no idea what happened here. I know it looks like a forest fire in the distant hills but I swear, somehow this is just me photographing some ordinary consumer-grade firework, possibly while my hand flinched while the camera was in Fireworks mode or something?
Another shot I can't explain but isn't that something to see? I wonder if I was trying to get a weird wavy trail from the Fireworks mode.
I don't know what I could have been doing in any mode to get this portrait of the Little Dipper wrapped in flames.
From the ``Taco Tuesday'' incident; the mishap of one of the big fireworks being lit sideways.
So I had run over behind a fence when I saw what was happening and I couldn't talk my camera into focusing right, but I think that makes this scene look the more real, even though it really happened like you see here.
Returning now to fountain fireworks but set up correctly so you get a reasonable display like this instead.
Same sort of view but in portrait and with a couple big balls of light among them.
Can't tell you what happened here. I can't figure any flinching of my hand that would make sense for this.
And here's a photograph of WindSeeker showing off its night livery --- er --- sorry, just a firework going up way high.
Another firework nice and high up with the long stem showing how it got that high.
Trivia: Gold discovered in 1858 in the mountains of western Kansas led to a gold rush, with something like fifty thousand outsiders suddenly setting up in the west and, among other things, pressing for Kansas to have a western border of 103 degrees west longitude (which would be in line with what is now Oklahoma and Texas's northern panhandle). Pre-existing Kansans, not wanting to see political control shift to the new miners (or to deal with regulating mining towns) kept the current border, 102 degrees west. Source: How The States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 58: Let Us Look To Lettuce, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
