Happy 5th of July, everyone!

I cannot wait until next year, when presumably community fireworks will be back on...

They end.

In this dense, rather well-to-do area, (Oakdale/Woodbury, MN), the competing fireworks were fun, at first.  Amazing what they sell now for "backyard" use... I had to google to make sure I wasn't seeing the real thing, an official display, out there.

Nope... big ones, up in the sky, WOW.
But... they go and on and on and on.  In the sky, and on the ground.  From here, and from there.  The sulfur smell came wafting in early, not too strong, because they are far enough away, but close enough eventually to smell...

And on and on and on and on...
Since this is something nobody is policing, it appears to have just wrapped up -- the good majority -- at midnight.  Let's hope!

China made money big-time in my neighborhood tonight, and beyond...