Saturday Afternoon Balloon Fest

Just sharing more hot air balloons from The Great Southeast Balloon Fest. Thanks to Froggie for the phone call to say they were up...we would've missed the whole thing! Less than 10 minutes after the call and they were already landing. There's always tomorrow. :P

Three getting ready to land next to the parking lot of Food Lion. It was pretty cool to watch. I had never seen this many balloons land so close to each.

We thought this one was too cute. Click to make 'em bigger....two teeth holding toothbrushes.

These almost passed directly overhead. I thought it was a pretty interesting angle anyway.

This is the one I got in the photo yesterday that was too dark to see. He was almost too dark again today. The sun was going down and making it hard to get good shots of the ones that actually got close to us.

Another silhouette...I love these. This one looked like a plaid design. I have to admit...not my favorite. It looks a lot nicer this way. :P

Hope you're all not getting bored with balloons. We love watching them and we get them here at least once a year. The kids really enjoy it and so do I. Maybe some day we'll hitch a ride in one.

Hugs!

The Great Southeast Balloon Fest

I just wanted to share some photos from this morning and yesterday morning. This weekend...our little town is hosting The Great Southeast Balloon Fest. They have competitions for the balloons and there's also musical entertainment, food and fireworks. It's family friendly fun for the weekend. Who doesn't love to see a sky filled with hot air balloons?

When I took this photo this morning...I intended to delete it later. I thought it was definitely the worst one yet. Once I opened it up...I changed my mind. I really like that little bit of sun reflecting on the side. I think it's actually my favorite now. :P *You can click them to make them bigger*


This one was just pure, dumb luck. Yay! I caught the balloon with the state logo on it! A few more seconds and he would have been gone behind the trees.

This is my best one from yesterday. The sky was really hazy and this one just happened to be crossing almost directly overhead. I had to pull the car over to get it but luckily there wasn't much traffic out here.


Another one from yesterday....hazy sky. It isn't a very clear photo but I like that there's a group of them together. This morning the sky was better so I'm hoping that tomorrow will be even better still. I'm hoping to get out and snap some more photos when they go up again but not sure that's gonna happen. I think the kids will enjoy seeing them too. They've been in school when all this is going on. They did get to see a couple this morning but the majority of them don't pop up until after they've gotten to school.

Hope you enjoyed the photos...just wanted to share. Now back to the knitting.

Hugs!