The Fourth

 

We had planned on going on hike for the fourth of July.  We didn't.  I hurt my hip somehow and wasn't sure I was up to even four miles.  But the walking we did that evening seemed to clear up my problem.  Truth to tell, I wasn't sure that I wanted to travel the mountain pass roads on the Holiday.  They carry lots of slow traffic on holidays.

So we picked Seth up after work, parked the car a few blocks away and headed for the South Lake Union Park.  The Center for Wooden Boats was just closing up their festival. 



We ate out picnic, near some young men playing with a soccer ball.  Coincidentally, one of them turned out to be an old friend.  These flowers were growing near where we ate out picnic.  They are such a pretty color.  The stems and leaves and flowers are all that color of blue.


 

We checked out the yacht sales yard and noticed the crowd of boats on Lake Union.  The fireworks are set off from a barge on the Lake and a view of them from the water is probably a lot of fun. 

A local band, Hey Marseilles, was playing and we listened to them.  Partly because the guy on the keyboard/accordian was in a choir with a couple of our kids.  They have a nice mix of instrumentation.  They have guitars, a violin, a string bass, a bass guitar, an accordian and keyboard and various rhythm instruments.
It was fun to watch the crowd watching them. 

The hula-hoopers were amazing.  They could eat and hula-hoop and dance all at the same time.  I tried to hula-hoop when I was a girl.  I could never get it to stay up for long.  These people seemed to do it without effort or thought.  I don't know why I can't get this picture to turn the girls were not standing on the wall.

We got a bit bored waiting for dark when the fireworks would go off. so we decided to head over to the edge of the crowd.  That was a good move as we missed being in the heavy traffic after the fireworks.

As it began to get dark I checked to see what my camera would do in low light.  If you think about it you can tell which lights were flashing because this picture has so much squiggle in it.















When the fireworks when off it was fun to have the new lens to get "closer"
Enjoy the fireworks.   

 These were some of my favorites.  They reminded me of sheaves of grain.

This last picture is another picture with squiggle.  The fireworks don't look like that really. The camera sees differently than our minds.  It is fun to see the difference sometimes.