billeyler | A happy surprise (Reply)

I was just about to read LJ this morning when I saw a hot air balloon out the window not 50 feet from the house...this morning's prevailing surface winds have taken all the balloons south from the launch site.

Here's this clip Danny took on his camera as a balloon passed over our deck, about to land in either the golf course one block south of our house (probably frowned on as a land zone) or the airport just south of the golf course (most definitely assuredly a no-land zone!)

Lovely way to start the morning! I had just started to do the house winterizing while Gary and Charlie were still out at the balloon field!

We just found this great time lapse clip of last year's balloon fiesta over several days from morning ascensions to evening fireworks!