HAPPY NEW YEAR -- 2025 ! -- MUSIC ..... FIREWORKS !

 HAPPY NEW YEAR -- 2025!

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

     Rod Stewart, Ella Fitzgerald, Singers

      Chris Botti, trumpet; David Foster, piano

Happy New Year 2025 -- Countdown, Music & Fireworks!

WISHING YOU ....

     PEACE

         HAPPINESS

               PROSPERITY

                   GOOD HEALTH

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2012

Independence Day celebrations are occurring across these United States.  My community has an annual parade, then a fireworks spectacular in the evening.   In years past our young children rode their decorated bikes down the shaded tree-lined boulevard past our city Memorial Park.    At night some years we parked in a Claremont Colleges parking lot to observe the sky-filled fireworks, missing only the ground displays since we weren't in the grandstands. 

Other years we drove part way up Mt. Baldy Road parking in a pull off spot overlooking the entire mountain valley allowing us to view fireworks displays in a multitude of communities.   Recent years I've attended with friends open-air spectacular concert extravaganzas about which I've written here previously.   I'm quite content some years to observe TV's colorful  4th of July coverage in locations around the U.S.  One TV  favorite of mine is the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Here's our ".. traditional July 4th celebration in Claremont, a city 25 miles east of LA, with games, booths, marching bands and, of course, fireworks. July 4th 2006."

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Here are a couple of colorful fireworks displays from other communities in recent years:

Seattle Fireworks: 4th of July 2005


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4th of July fireworks in Boston 2006


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HAPPY 4th OF JULY TO ALL!

Pleasure Fulfilled

There is a never-ending unwritten list in the back of my mind of small pleasures I look forward to experiencing. One such item on my list is highlighted below. I expect many of you have your own uniquely appealing list.

BOOM ! ! !

The cannon roared unexpectedly drawing our eyes skyward. A gigantic frothy grayish smoke ring slowly moved higher in the night’s moon lit sky toward cloud layers in the atmosphere before fading from view. The amphitheatre crowd cheered. The one hundred person Pacific Symphony Orchestra continued bombarding us with the increasing tempo and volume of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." Mesmerizing sound punctuated violent musical crescendos as though the sky was quickly embracing this offering to the gods and goddesses of sensual pleasure. Then there was a sky splitting crackling sound simultaneous with the explosions of sparkling colors including red, silver, gold fireworks shooting upward like rockets, then spreading across the sky in a long sequence of firings. The residual flaming sparks gradually dimmed, faded from sight, then suddenly a second cannon BOOM followed by the appearance of another smoke ring, soon drifting off in search of its predecessor. Another long-desired pleasure fulfilled for this witness to the end of summer’s amphitheatre concerts.