Strange Fireworks

The fireworks were different this year on July 4th.  They started shooting them off earlier than normal, when there was still light in the sky from sunset.  We didn't think much about it until a short while after it started, and suddenly all the black smoke from the explosions, made this giant black cloud against the fading light of day!  If the sky had been black, we wouldn't have seen the smoke, and if there was some light on the smoke cloud  from the front, the smoke cloud would have been white.  The black cloud sure was omninous looking!  It looked like perhaps a boat had exploded and burned!

But then as more mortars were fired, the colors of the fireworks were really pretty and the dark cloud became less obvious, and the display seemed much more normal.  It was a wonderful evening with friends watching the fireworks over the harbor.