Celebration: Summer 2009

Last night was the final night of the 3-day celebration here in town.

Abbie and I went over to the park every night

to hang out and listen to the music and watch the local talent perform.

It was a nice...

*cool summer nights*

*sitting on blankets*

*eating dutch oven chicken and potatoes*

*watching people*

Last night was the final celebration

ending

with

fireworks

which

I

took

way

too

many

photos

of.

Sorry.

You see, it's just that I have a camera which I bought last May,

a little Nikon that I can carry in my purse

so that I don't always have to tote around my Canon,

and I haven't really played around with it a lot

and I wanted to see how it would do taking pictures of fireworks.

It did fine.

But I sort of over did it.

Abbie had to tell me to put away my camera

because we were supposed to snuggle while we watched the fireworks.

Yep. That's the kind of a mother I've become.

Well,

the crowd was feeling the music

and there was plenty of crowd to go around

and Abbie and I wandered around the booths for a bit

(and the presence of the Police on foot and bike was comforting)

and we couldn't really talk because the music was so loud

and people were having such a good time

and our (used-to-be)

big name performer for the night

who seemed a little-bit-drunk

(because he goes from small town to small town for the love of his music)

put on a pretty good show

and kept talking about his drive out here

and how this was "God's country".

He charmed the locals.

Some of them may have been drunk, too.

But you know what?

I'm a local now

and I was somewhat charmed

and we had fun

and the last three nights made me kind of happy.

It's a good town to live in.