Look up, you might see something.

I went outside just now to turn on the sprinklers, and I heard the thunder of afterburners.

Then I saw something Ive never seen before: A night acrobatic display, as a fighter accelerated, its afterburners lighting up the clear night sky, trailing a half-mile long tail of golden sparks.

It then effortlessly looped thousands of feet into the sky, came back down.. and started spewing exploding fireworks balls of all colors.

I grabbed the camera but gave up trying to capture it.. turned on the sprinklers and chilled on the PVC beach lounge chair behind the house.

Very cool.

Frankly, Ive been underwhelmed by Airshow displays the last coupla years. Same planes, same acrobatic displays...

But, tonight - they put on a show.

The fireworks-spewing, afterburner-flaming aerial display was only the start.

The mother of all fireworks displays then started up.

I sat back, and watched the mile-high cloud of colored fire spew for the next half hour, with the screaming, thundering fighters accelerating low over the houses and beaches then going straight up into the starlit sky - floating past the stars and the planets.

These guys obviously love what they do - and they REALLY put on a show.

Last year, I walked up to the middle of the Bayonne Bridge.. and saw the grandest sight I had seen in awhile.
In the clear summer haze, I could see for miles in all directions.. out into the Atlantic, up the Long Island sound, all the way up the Hudson Valley past the glistening jewel of New York, around the Delaware River estuary that is New Jersey, all the way into the Appalachians.

At that point, a prayer came from my lips.. to live long enough to see a few more cool sights like that.

Tonight qualified.
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