Happy Fourth of July!

I hope you are all enjoying the 4^th of July.

I’m up at the cottage today, off in the distance I can hear fireworks going off and tonight I think I am going to watch the Provincetown fireworks tonight from Duck Harbor Beach one of the town beaches or take the bus up to P’town and watch them there. But I am leaning toward Duck Harbor because I want to take pictures from their of the fireworks, I have an image in mind and I want to see if I can do it the way I imagine it.

When I was little (in elementary school) I use to go down to a

This was taken from
 my old NH lake cottage

friend’s house and camp out in his yard so we could shot off fireworks from morning to night. We use to wait until his parents got up and then we could start shooting off the fireworks. Just after sunrise one fourth when we were in our late teens we set off a military purple smoke bomb to the music of Jim Hendrix “Purple Haze” as the smoke drifted out over the pond next to his house and formed a low cloud over the pond. We had waited all year to do that, it was so neat.

When he got older he became a professional pyrotechnician and does private shows. Once I helped him set up a show and we got to lie down next to where he was running the show, we had ringside seats. Big 6 inch mortars were going off just feet away with a chest pressing THUMP.

Every year he used to have a 4^th at his house once he was married, seven or eight years back I went to party for the first time as Diana, it felt a little bit strange being with friends that I had known all my life as Diana but everyone was okay with me, he hasn’t parties in years.