happy fourth!

We watched the fireworks from a tiny park situated at the end of Few Street. At first, we had the park to ourselves. Then an Indian family arrived, all carrying ears of sweet corn, and that was all very well. And THEN 20 drunks arrived and started shooting off fireworks of their own, and when a neighbor complained, shouted, "AMERICANS DON'T APOLOGIZE!"



Watching the fireworks from across the lake reminded me irresistibly of that one scene in The Little Mermaid...