Got scared that murmanskdays would delete me and urgently decided to write something, even though I don't really care.
Today, November 18, is Independence Day here in Latvia.
I'm home in Daugavpils right now. Wanted to meet up with my second cousin Artur and my college buddy Edik. Didn't work out with either of them, because both of their wives have birthdays today (sic!).
Instead, I went to see the fireworks in the evening, which I brazenly called a parade in the comments to gugiens, thereby leading the philanthropic Gugens into a
misunderstanding, since he was craving photos of people at the parade. What parade, when it's -2 outside and gets dark at 16.00 ?
Then I drank some vermouth, even though I previously told phoneme that I'm a teetotaler (turns out I lied), and now I'm writing all kinds of nonsense out of boredom.
So as not to write completely in vain,
The youngsters living in my dacha neighborhood
I admired the fireworks together with these comrades here, who are quite cultured and promising people. In the background is the renovated hotel.
Oftentimes that's exactly how it all looked - like a cloud of smoke
But it gets better further on.
Blue fireworks
Green fireworks
Multicolored fireworks
The climax - golden fireworks
The denouement, so to speak
I didn't capture the finale, though, because my tiny 16 mb Canon memory card ran out of space. And as for the 2 GB Patriot I usually use, its plastic casing started falling apart into pieces and crumbling, so I had to leave it at home. That's Japanese quality versus American for you.
So here's the bottom line: I liked the fireworks. And I already glued the card back together with superglue, which is actually just simply cyanoacrylate, and not even really "super" at all.