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6 Balloons

6 Hot Air Balloons

6 Hot Air Balloons

 

Like a cat, I stretched my body from tip to toe, relishing the newly wakened feeling surging through my body.  On a mini-vacation with girlfriends at a near-by bed-and-breakfast in the Temecula wine country, I climbed out of my luxurious bed, put on my slippers and headed to the window.  Pushing open the curtains, I opened the sliding glass door that led out to our balcony.

Stepping onto the large balcony in the brisk, misty morning stillness, I inhaled deeply savoring the moment and working the cobwebs out of my foggy brain.  My eyes traveled across the vast landscape of vineyards and rolling hills and stopped dead as they focused on 5 balloons in the distant!  5 hot air balloons ascending into the sky.

I ran back into the room, brain fog now vanished, to get my camera.  As fast as I could muster, I changed lenses to my zoom lenses, wrapped the strap around my neck and headed out to the balcony.  Not wanting to miss a moment of this awesome sight, I focused my lens.  The balloons were too far away in the distant to get a meaningful shot of all six, so instead I got four.

4 Hot Air Balloons Panorama

4 Hot Air Balloons Panorama

 

 

4th Hot Air Balloon ascending

4th Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

Suddenly a sixth beautiful bright balloon, centered in yellow with red and blue strips, slowly rose from behind a hill.

Yellow Center Hot Air Balloon ascending from behind a hill

Yellow Center Hot Air Balloon ascending from behind a hill

 

Higher and higher it climbed, joining the others hovering in the faint breeze.

 

Yellow-center Hot Air Balloon hovering over the morning mists

Yellow Center Hot Air Balloon hovering in the morning mists

 

White Top Hot Air Balloon ascending

White Top Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon ascending

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

Blue-centered Hot Air Balloon ascending

Blue Center Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

Spiral-striped Hot Air Balloon ascending

Spiral-striped Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon ascending

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

 

Close-up of 2 Hot Air Balloons ascending

Close-up of 2 Hot Air Balloons ascending

 

2 Hot Air Balloons ascending

2 Hot Air Balloons ascending side-by-side

 

3 Hot Air Balloons panorama

3 Hot Air Balloons panorama

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon high in the sky

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon high in the sky. Ticket to Oz, anyone?

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon among the clouds

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon getting closer

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon getting closer

 

Blue-centered Hot Air Balloon getting closer

Blue Center Hot Air Balloon getting closer

 

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon close-up

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon close-up

 

Yellow-centered Hot Air Balloon ascending

Yellow Center Hot Air Balloon ascending

 

White Top Hot Air Balloon

White Top Hot Air Balloon

 

Blue-centered Hot Air Balloon and Rainbow Balloon

Blue Center Hot Air Balloon and Rainbow Hot Air Balloon

 

Close-up of Blue-centered Hot Air Balloon

Close-up of Blue Center Hot Air Balloon

 

Hot Air Balloon getting close

Hot Air Balloon getting close enough so that I can see the passengers and they can see me!

 

Yellow-centered Hot Air Balloon directly overhead

Yellow Center Hot Air Balloon directly overhead

 

Spiral Hot Air Balloon moving closer

Spiral Hot Air Balloon moving closer

 

Spiral Hot Air Balloon heading towards the trees

Spiral Hot Air Balloon heading towards the trees

 

Spiral Hot Air Balloon and 2 trees

Spiral Hot Air Balloon and 2 trees

 

Spiral Hot Air Balloon and 3 trees

Spiral Hot Air Balloon and 3 trees

 

White Top Hot Air Balloon heading for the trees

White Top Hot Air Balloon heading for the trees

 

White Top Hot Air Balloon around the corner

White Top Hot Air Balloon around the corner

 

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon coming down

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon coming down

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon descending

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon descending

 

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon in my face

Rainbow Hot Air Balloon in my face!

 

3 Hot Air Balloons skimming the trees

3 Hot Air Balloons skimming the trees

 

2 Hot Air Balloons skimming the tree tops

2 Hot Air Balloons skimming the tree tops

 

3 Hot Air Balloons like a picture postcard

3 Hot Air Balloons like a picture postcard

 

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon in the bright blue skies

South Coast Winery Hot Air Balloon in the bright blue skies

 

Wasn’t that a great way to start a morning?  A shout-out to my dare-devil girlfriend, Ali, across the pond in England:  hey, Ali, next time you come to the States, let’s go ballooning, k?  I think I just added another thing to do on my bucket list!

Is ballooning on yours?

Tootles,

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Filed Under: Adventures, Our Blog, Sweet Spot Tagged With: Southern California, Temecula

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