The 4th of July marks the anniversary of our move to Astoria. We moved just shy of the holiday two years ago and so the 4th has become our own sort of “Independence Day”. We celebrated in true Wonder style; on our porch with lots of food. Mostly, it was a day of hanging out, reveling in the beauty that is life, and doing everything at a leisurely pace. The photos below are just the highlights.
Two years ago, we discovered that you could see most of the town’s firework display from the empty lot on our block. However, this year, we were treated to the display from our very tangy porch! And while the last photo in the set below isn’t a superior piece of photography, it gives you some idea of the fabulous light show we were graced with last night.
Fireworks was followed by home-made ice cream and then we lit the last remaining sparklers, one for each of us. Glittery little prayers of gratitude for an amazing year.
We certainly had a fabulous 4th of July. We hope you and your family did too!
Oh, we can’t have any fireworks here…and I miss sparklers…sort of, I used to be scared of them when I was a kid, and thought I may like to face my fears by trying them now…oh well.
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I remember sparklers being longer lived than the ones we used last night. ~W
We had a huge amount of fireworks thanks to our neighbors, but they are scary/stupid with them. (the adult guys shooting Roman candles at each other, kids running around as fireworks were going off) We were always fanatics about the kids staying way back while my husband lit the fireworks, with a bucket of water right next to him. Next year I’m hoping to go back to Anderson Island to see the big fireworks shows from a lawn chair. I love the homemade ice cream and sparklers–that’s a nice old-fashioned Fourth of July!
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This was the first year we let the boy light any of the fireworks. But only a few with really long fuses. That was a BIG deal, trust me. He was so pleased. 😀 ~W
It was a marvelous day blessed by unusually fantastic weather for the Pacific Northwest – I was so happy to spend it with you and BW! One of those “best ever” moments…
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Our weather has been amazing for the past few days. And this week promises more. Can you believe 90 tomorrow? And the 4th was such a lovely day—a nice pace to take a holiday. ~W
Around here, we can’t get those metal sparklers like the one in your photo, but at least fireworks are still available for sale (and for viewing in their full splendor at the park).
Your photography is just lovely, Wende.
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Oh! Thank you… :D I’m not surprised you can’t get the sparklers where you are. It probably helps with the fire risk not having them available, eh? Here, it’s so wet! ~W