Fireworks

The good wife wanted to visit one of our usual 4th haunts, the Crescent Hill Traditional or the Frankfort Capitol Celebration. Instead we stayed here and went up to Atherton's parking lot to watch 2 different neighbor extravaganzas. It was sort of fun watching dueling munitions. Apparently, the girlfriend of one group asked that the other group leave b/c they "were there first", thereby setting up the duel. Both are good neighbors, so I'm not taking sides, but the affronted neighbor "won" w/ several barrages of multiple high rockets. It's rather amazing what the layman can buy these days, all from Indiana, of course, b/c most of the good stuff is illegal in KY.

Even better, IMHO, was the show we were treated to upon leaving the festivities. In the south Nature's own fireworks, via a great in-the-cloud lightening storm, were kicking up, sending tendrils of flame to and fro, lightening up the entire sky, albeit at a reasonable distance. I'll take Nature's finest over the "ancient Chinese secret" any day. We are bereft of observatories in our delightful river valley location. I looked for an approximation for perhaps 10min, but never found one. Henceforth, I chose this to represent Nature's own.