Every Fourth of July Nancy and I invite a group of friends and neighbors to cruise on a deckboat on Lake Thoreau at sunset, to watch the evening’s impromptu celebrations of Independence Day. Enormous, professional-grade starburst shells go off overhead as bottle rockets inscribe arcs over or between the boats. The whole thing is spontaneous and unplanned. Our music was a mashup of Sousa marches and patriotic country. This is America’s birthday, lake-style.
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Reston, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Every Fourth of July the residents around the lakes in northern Virginia celebrate the national day with spontaneous fireworks displays. Everyone who owns a boat or a floating dock or “deck boat” embarks with tiki torches lit and a boat full […]
Aug 02, 2009 | Categories: Land & Air, thePhotoTourist | Tags: 4th of July, boat, boats, fireworks, Fourth of July, Independence Day, lake, night, not_uw, party, reflection, Reston, surface, USA, Virginia, water | 1 Comment »