We had a glorious and (nearly) personal fireworks show, thanks to the James River Adventure Games.
Round about nine o'clock, we moseyed down to Libby Hill Park where we found one other person sitting on the bluff and looking west towards downtown. The fireworks started popping a minute after we got there and a few other people trickled into the park. Church Hill is a bit removed from Brown's Island, the actual venue for the show, but it's pretty cool to watch the fireworks over the skyline with the Lucky Strike smokestack in the foreground.
Somebody at the fireworks factory figured out how to make the shell explode the lighty-up bits in the form of a cube, so the spark-defined box made a frequent appearance in the display. That was the only new (to me) design. They had plenty of the sparkly kind which I quite like too. Also dramatic was the smoke plume spreading out over the skyline and below the crescent moon.
Who needs candles when you've got fireworks?
172 words | June 16, 2007 11:12 PM | Real true story