BALLOONS

This past Friday, Saturday and today was the annual hot air balloon festival in Lake Havasu.  They had nice weather this year and were able to fly the balloons each day.  The following pictures were taken during the three day event and most were taken from the patio at our house.  Please pardon the wires and telephone poles in some of the pictures.  They haven't put all that stuff under ground here yet.

Taken the first morning of the festival.

Colorful.

Two at once.

My favorite, the Pink Elephant.

Another shot.

In profile.

This one was far out.

Same here.

And another.

This was the area they all took off from down near the lake.

A second shot of the area.

The Pink Elephant and one other.

Another shot of the take off area.

And another.

This one was closer to the house.

Same here.

And here.

One more.

This one again and he past by.

Not sure what this one was.  It was a long way out there.

Colorful.

This one had just landed as we were on the way by this morning.  Right next to the highway on the service road.

Another shot of the landing.

And one more.  We couldn't stop to watch him deflate.

Patrick

BEEP! BEEP! ROADRUNNER VISIT

The backyard to our place is all torn up for future landscaping, so we haven't had any animal critters visiting until today.  The Roadrunner decided to visit us today.  He spent a lot of time here checking out the backyard area.  Must have been looking for lizards for his sweetie.  Got a couple pictures of the handsome fellow.


Fine specimen.

Side shot.

 Rear shot.

Patrick