Independence Day
100 Happy Days #46
Oh, how we love the early morning of July 4th!
For years and years and years we’ve gathered at the same park…
at 6 a.m. sharp…
with a zillion other crazies…
to be part of the balloon festival in Provo.
It always starts the same way, with the lead balloon taking off first.
while the others are still getting ready.
It takes dozens of torch blasts to fill each balloon…
and get them to settle up straight.
Then one by one they start rising up into the air.
These guys threw out tiny parachutes to the children below.
Now and then an unfamiliar balloon appears in the sky. Hello yellow–you’re new.
I’m sure that some day it could happen…
that we get tired…
and bored…
and lazy…
and choose to sleep in…
instead of coming here…
in the wee hours of the morning…
before normal people are even awake…
just for a little of this…
and this…
and this.
Yeah, maybe.
When pigs fly.
:}
“I am apt to believe that it (Independence Day) will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
~John Adams~
Hot Air Balloons?
Did anybody notice that there was no post for the 4th of July Balloon Festival?
Well, that, my friends is because we were totally ready to go at 5:30 am but when we arrived at the field…
all the people and cars were going the other direction.
Apparently, there was too much cloud cover and too much wind so the whole darn shootin’ match was canceled and everyone was heading back home.
Which pretty much means that this year the Hot Air Balloon Festival was just, you know….
hot….air.
Yeah, I crack myself up.
Luckily, even in a dreadful crisis such as this, we still know how to behave.
It was a good day.
:}
America the Beautiful
No, no. I wasn’t in New York for the 4th of July. I was actually helping Dane in his booth. But this picture made me very happy. It’s beautiful–don’t you think?
How did you celebrate the 4th?
:}
Happy Independence Day!
Please, please~
