Look Up: First of the season
Posted: May 21, 2010 Filed under: Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, home, hot air balloons, NaBloPoMo, nature, Photography, SkyWatch Friday, Spring | Tags: balloons, clouds, sun dogs 11 Comments
Just as we sat down to dinner last night, the first hot air balloon of the season came floating by. Naturally I had to jump up, grab my camera, and go out to snap a few shots. I didn’t notice until I looked at the photos on the computer that I had also captured a sun dog.
So I decided to make this a SkyWatch Friday post, too. Click on the link to enjoy more beautiful skies from around the world. Or post and submit your own SkyWatch Friday post. You know you want to. 😀
And, as always, click on the photo to see the larger version. These are not particularly good balloon shots (you can’t see the colors well because of the sunlight) but I do like the way the light is hitting the left side of the balloon in the first shot and the seredipitous sun dog in the second.
(Yesterday’s sunset.)
Life in the Bogs 
Hot air balloons already? What a grand sight that must be from a balloon high in the sky. Imagine the photos you could take from that.
Have you ever gone ballooning, or would you want to?
And I’ve never seen a sun dog. Interesting skies, for sure.
Bo: We were just wondering the other day when we’d spot the first balloon this year. It’s a little earlier than I was expecting.
I have not been ballooning but would like to do so. As you wrote, imagine the photos… 🙂
Gorgeous colours!
I saw the sun dog…cool! Gorgeous sunset shot and hot-air balloon shots.
I’d never heard of “sun dogs” before. Thanks for the interesting information.
The balloon is pretty, but your sky view is breathtaking.
I sign up for a ride years ago while in Boston, but unfortunately, due to fog, we didn’t get to take off… and I haven’t been able to get the chance to try it again. 😦
Hot air balloon, wow!! Great shot from above. Happy weekend!
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Nice! Love to watch balloons ascent on a gorgeous evening….. thanks for sharing!
Thank you everyone. 🙂
Beautiful shots! We have a balloon festival coming up in a couple of weeks.
Thanks, Lisa. 🙂