A Non-Disney, Non-Fancy, No-Frills, Fourth of July Fireworks Exposition

[HighLeveller]

Did anyone go and see any ordinary fireworks shows today? I'll admit I'm probably just a tad spoiled by Disney fireworks, but even a straight-up basic show is always worthwhile. Fireworks are fireworks: 100 shells or 10,000, I like them all the same.

Here's today's installment of my annual (if available) pilgrimage to the college parking lot for the big show there. There's a concert or performance at the stadium beforehand too, that the fireworks show ties into. I haven't seen it before; maybe sometime. This was the first non-Disney show I'd seen in a long time, since this show two years ago I think. (Although there's actually several shows a year at the ballpark that I can partially see out the front door. I usually hear them at first, then go watch.)












You get two shows for one here. Take a look at the lower right: those in the distance are from the show at the country club. They're in some of the following too.






Red, white and blue finale

Here's the finale of the country club show:


You actually get three for one in a sense, thanks to all of the

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fireworks people are continually launching in the surrounding neighborhood, that you get a mostly-unblocked view of.

I walked here from quite a ways off to keep from dealing with all the traffic. Afterward, some lingering and then taking the scenic route home. Some timelapses:




"Oildale, California. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

On the way home--we're not quite done yet! The show at the ballpark kicked off. (If there's not a game on the 4th, the game closest to the 4th, or thereabouts, will have a big show.)




Your turn if you want, if you have some you want to share that doesn't warrant a full-blown TR.

[Pacis]

Great photos