Cascadian Fireworks (ooooh, ahhhh)

Somehow Tropical

Unexpectedly good, then unexpected annoyance

Kenmore's first-year fireworks display was actually pretty good. It ran about 25 minutes, had some good variety, was plenty close and loud since we had a great view just by walking down to the end of the street, and I saw at least one kind of firework I'd never seen before. Yay! It's no Space-Needle-at-New-Year's, but it was good.

Also today I took a picture of Lyon Creek Park in Lake Forest Park, and was going to upload the massive version to Wikipedia for the LFP page. But because I did more work on the image than usual getting the levels to be coherent and everything viewable and such, I don't want it available for commercial use, which seems okay because Wikipedia has that option in the license selection option on the upload page. Except that when you actually use that, first it uploads the image, then, a few minutes later, it throws a big thing across the image's description on the image page telling you Wikipedia doesn't allow noncommercial-use licenses, tags it for immediate deletion, and links to a BB post from 2005 wherein administrators are bitching about people still uploading things using that license. You know what? If you don't fucking want people using that license, don't have it in the goddamn dropdown.

Man, that's annoying.

So I reverted the LFP page to the previous version and let it stay tagged for immediate deletion. I'd delete it myself, but can't, as I'm not an administrator, even though I uploaded it and it's unlinked. O WELL. You can clickie on this icon for a 144K preview if you want; no commercial uses allowed, thanks:



We also walked down to the park today for a picnic lunch, where we saw:


Ducks

and


An Eagle

So that was fun.