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The night was exceptionally clear and pleasantly cool. The breeze actually brought the smell of the fireworks toward us intermittently, and, for some reason, tonight was the first night I could recognize that I was seeing the fireworks well before I heard them. That just over a mile of distance is enough to notice that the speed of sound is significantly slower than the speed of light.

I hope you all got to watch your local display, or my local display on TV.

I know I write about it every year, but one of the great joys of my apartment is watching the Capitol fireworks from the balcony. They always feel personal.

Can someone explain to me how we can get delayed spanglies (the technical term, I'm sure) in fireworks? There were some waterfalls that then had red spangles. Also we got one skull, several smiley faces, letters, and, I think, a few hearts.