The fireworks started early!
Ka
Boom
There’s a saying about corn: “Knee high by the fourth of July.” Ours is between 4-10 feet tall!
You can see the two types of corn in the picture above. The brighter green is sweet corn (“country gentleman”) and the darker, shorter corn in the background is ornamental “Wade’s Giant Indian” flint corn. The flint corn was planted three weeks after the sweet corn so that they won’t tassel at the same time (to avoid cross-pollination).
Baby ready for the festivities!
Helping to decorate!
She said this is a drawing of a potato; she did it all by herself.
And I did this all by myself haha
Woo USA!
Some animals seemed to be celebrating too…
Festive Cardinal
Skink
And…
A fox!
Then we were off to the…
Creek
Swimming
Exploring the…
Creek Bed
Baby found a vine.
Rocks and Jocks
We found a lot of really cool rocks. I’m going to take a picture of each one and do a whole post on them (so get excited). Rocks rock.
Pitching and Catching
Brrr!
Tomato Sandwiches: Summer’s Greatest Food
Snacking and Snoozing
Zzzzzz
Zzzzz
Beautiful Canopy
That X! Hope this huge tree isn’t getting cut down!
Such a great place
But of course, the main event,
Our very own…
fireworks.
Light Show
Glow Sticks and Fireworks
The Spy channeling Tron
Sparklers!
Woo MERICA!
Baby’s First Sparkler
We just got a couple bags of fireworks (about $40 worth) but they sure made for a good time and some cool pictures!
Finale!
Looks like Space
Far Out!
Hope you all are having a safe and happy holiday weekend!
What a lovely day you all had. The creek looks fantastic !
Thanks! Got to love a creek!
You apparently have tall knees? Baby appears to be drawing Minion. He will be most pleased. Now THAT is what I call a 4th of July celebration worth celebrating. Nature, fireworks, potatoes and the ubiquitous stars. Kudos Spy clan, you did your country proud. I take the 5th ;)
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Great post – I enjoyed the garden and night fireworks – those night shots are so fun. Galactic, indeed. Baby has the potato down! Doesn’t it make you wonder what goes on inside their heads? LOL – ‘jocks and rocks’ Looking forward to the rock post – I agree that rocks rock! I’ll look forward to seeing your Indian corn – I love all the multi-colored kernels. Raccoons and bears make raising corn here impossible, unless I want to use an electric fence. Too much bother when I can just go the farm stand!
The Indian corn was planted with kernels I saved from last year which is always fun. The ear was all black and orange kernels so maybe I will have Halloween corn! Rock post coming soon! :)