Oooh, How Pretty!
Fireworks are beautiful. I've loved them since I was a child. To see a light explode in the night sky into streams of different colors, and to feel the boom resound right through me was the definition of summer and good weather. More than anything because I only saw fireworks on the Fourth of July. Here we see them at almost every festival. Only the very small parrochial festivals don't have them, like ours. Last Saturday, a week late because of the weather, Vilagarcía de Arousa had their Batalla Naval , the fireworks to celebrate the end of their festival. We are about a half hour drive away and we could hear the booming from our house. If we had driven to a high spot in the hills nearby, we would have seen them blossoming over the ría . But all their beauty has a downside to it. For, to be able to see those fireworks break open in all their glory, many different ingredients have to be put together, including dangerous gun powder. Yesterday there was an explosion at a pyrot...