Festivities on the Fourth

Here's a few images from my fourth of July festivities...

Picking Lilies in the rain


Chickens with hours to live


A sunbathing cat


A nephew on the radio


Another nephew dancing in the street


Homeland Security dollars hard at work (a tank for a mostly-rural county)


A lemur in the parade


The nephews' preschool's float


The local Democratic Party's float


An ant made of trash bags


Dogs in the parade*

* Casey didn't join us for the parade because bikes and scooters and motorcycles freak him out. He can be perfectly calm and collected... and then become a barking frantic mess when a bike goes by. Having him trying to attack the boy scouts pedaling in the parade wasn't my idea of a good time.

Josh's cousin & his wife, on the fourth of July committee


The real excitement of the weekend came Sunday, though. More on that later.