A Bunch of Hot Air!

These guys have been driving me nuts for months! Well, only in the sense that I've been trying to get photos and they never get close enough. I hear the whooshing, but they always veer in a different direction as they approach. They launch from the regional park across the main road. Some of them have been making a daredevil game out of dipping up and down in the lakes in our neighborhood. When they do that, I almost root for them to sink.

Anyway, Monday morning, I just happened to be peeking out the back door when I heard that sound! They came in low, barely over the rooftops. I ran and retrieved my camera and was out there in my red nightie snapping photos. Out in the open. Wow! Got 'em! Then Craig happened to point out that there was a large group hooting and hollering in one of the balloons and a guy had a telephoto lens snapping pictures of me! OMG! I'll probably be the featured joke in the next issue of Balloon Life Magazine. The old hag in her red nightie!

This balloon had the perv snapping photos of me!

Craig said this basket was loaded with people. They actually dipped right over our backyard, but by that time, I was hiding under the covered patio to get away from the photographer.

This balloon was a little more polite and kept its distance.

But I love this photo when it was almost directly overhead.

There's something in a flying horse,There's something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth