… while I eat my apple pie.
Fireworks at University of Central Oklahoma
No, this isn’t another flower, but it does sort of look like it, doesn’t it? My wife took this photo during the display at the university last year.
In Japan, however, the distinction between fireworks and flowers is not so straightforward. The Japanese word for fireworks is hanabi, which being translated literally is “flower-fire.” Here are the two symbols, or kanji, which make up the word:
The left-hand symbol means “flower,” and the right-hand symbol means “fire.”
