Fourth of July (Around Here)

My husband is the recently elected president of our manor association and for years has been deeply involved in our local 4th of July festivities. There is an a.m. parade to the hot sunny field that lays between our two neighborhoods (Philips Manor and Sleepy Hollow Manor) where hot dogs and cold drinks, a cake contest, pony rides and field games go in full swing. He is always busy the week before gearing up for the event and then works tirelessly on the the 4th to ensure it all gets done. As the evening progresses, people gather at the local beach club and hang out until the fireworks go off. The club is situated on it's own spit of land and provides a very nice vantage point of the river and the Tappan Zee Bridge. In the course of an hour, you can see across the river to the distant fireworks going off in Nyack and Piermont, and then our village's begin when those end. I find myself taking a fair amount of pictures when I am there because the setting is so idyllic. Almost irresistible as subject matter, when you come down to it.