Happy Birthday, Joanna. Yep, another year of celebrating Joanna's birthday. Hope she has a nice day. We did the celebrating last night because Bastrop had Patriotic Day yesterday. It looked like they had a great time with games, food, contests, music and ending with the great fireworks. They go all out for a small town. For the fireworks, we found a new vantage point by the library which seemed cooler on the hill and not right down at the river. We could hear the Elvis impersonator and the recorded music for the fireworks. They had a choir for the patriotic songs just before the fireworks but they were not boosted by speakers so we couldn't hear them very well. We do miss the Austin Symphonic Band, they used to come every year to Bastrop. Miss the trombones and cymbols.
We still had a good time with our New Mexican food dinner as requested by the birthday girl, uh woman. Doesn't seem possible. How time flies.
Here we are. Gene doesn't like the noise and crowds so he stayed home and watched the house. He said there were lots for fireworks very close by. We had a couple of inches of rain in the afternoon so at least there shouldn't have been any fires.
The evening was beautiful after the rain. You can see the roofs of the food area down below us. The fireworks were right over the middle trees. Beautiful.
These are some shots from a video Joanna took. Came out pretty good, don't you think?
Hope you all have a great day! So thankful for our troops and first responders! We thank them for our freedom.
Here is the Marine Corps band's version of Stars and Stripes Forever. Love it!
Home Front, Too
Pastel, 11 x 14 inches on Pastelbord
8 comments:
looks like a great day! 😀
im glad there are no americans or canadians celebrating around here, once a year fireworks is enough to give the dog a heart attack
Jennifer, you are right about the dogs. I guess you get fireworks for New Years Eve, right? Hard on the animals/pets.
new years and the 5th of November for Guy Fawkes Day it sounds like we are at war lol
Jennifer Rose, exactly! Jennie plays loud music and her two dogs seem to sleep through at least part of the time.
Thanks for sharing bits of your day. Sounds like a great celebration for Joanna. Happy Birthday to her! The photos of the fireworks came out really nice. I only saw them on TV switching from the Macy's ones in NYC to the ones over the Capital in DC.
Joan, thanks for coming by. We did have a good time. It is nice that our small town really has a fun day, especially for the kids and fireworks and music for the old kids in us. We watched some on TV but it isn't the same, right?
Happy Belated birthday to Joanna! One day I will get to meet her. I love the fireworks pictures. I really love fireworks - maybe because growing up in the mountains we didn't have fireworks. They just fascinate me. That is a fun picture of the family.
Bag Blog, I imagine Joanna feels the same way. Maybe now that she is "retired" she could do a trip with us. She works more than ever I think. It is fun to get together for "her" fireworks.
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