Happy New Year!

Our rural fire departments have fireworks sales for fundraisers. Which seems kind of silly to me--they use funds raised to put out fires caused by fireworks. Or, I guess you could see it as making sure their jobs are needed? Still silly, because they are volunteers.

Anyhow, the boys, since they are boys, like getting fireworks. When John is on his trips, I don't buy anything fun (according to the boys) because I am "Safety Susie." This year they made up for last New Year's Eve and last 4th of July. It rained yesterday, and wind was very low, so fire danger was low, and up went the rockets.

There were quite a few rockets that exploded overhead and some bottle rockets that whistled enough to scare most dogs in our area (and one 5 year old who lives at this address). Since I am still figuring out my camera, I did not get good shots of the fireworks or bottle rockets.

Here is what I did manage to shoot:

and my favorite: