Fireworks!

On Sunday night I took video of the castillo fireworks from a rooftop.
For some reason the videos did not show
The flowers
San Miguel
The grail,
The voladores
The spinners
And all the other detail I was hoping to get.

What the videos do show
Is the pure amount of firepower being let off
Within a fifty foot radius of hundreds of people,
The builders of the castillo towers crawling up them,
While they are going off, shaking the towers
To get them to do what they want them to do.

The castillo fireworks are endlessly fascinating to me
They are a piece of performance art,
Each year, getting better and better.
The only thing I miss these days,
Is all the little boys running around underneath them,
Cardboard boxes over their heads,
A rite of passage, running under all those sparks and flame
That they are no longer allowed to do.
That's probably a good thing, but I am sure a disappointment
To all those little boys, whose fathers can now say
'I remember when' - to future generations.

Meantime, here's a selection of photos that I found in my archives,
Little boys running under fire,
Lots of light and spark,
Amazing structures that are meant to be blown up.
And video of parts of firework shows -
Taken in previous years, and this festival of San Miguel.