Summer traditions

三次の花火大会
Originally uploaded by 絵理.

Here on a summer night you will hear the sound of fireworks going off. Like the smell of a BBQ in the evening as the day cools off a little in Australia.
It's not illegal to set off fireworks here and you can buy them at most combinis. The fireworks at the show at Miyoshi were rather different to those at things I have seen in Australia. Mainly blasts and the interest of individual fireworks as opposed to making shapes or patterns. Not many on the ground either. But there were ones that shaped into Helly Kitty and Doraemon's faces and the SMILE face - some that exploded into birds or flowers.
The one pictured was one of my favourite kinds and I was excited that I managed to capture both stages of its explosion, and which the mountains vaguely visible in the background with the lights of the road, houses and cars.

Summer here is the noisy sound of セミ insects crying.
Seasons are different . . .