2/9/16

So I felt like some color today.  We are in the dreary blah part of the year where everything is just brown.  This was something quite lovely and colorful I got to see late last summer.  I went to the Huff N Puff Hot Air Balloon Event in Topeka, Kansas.  This was their Balloon Glow Event where they got the balloons filled and lit up with the fire from them.  It was quite beautiful and neat to see when they choreographed the lighting of them to instruction and some music.  Just looking at them all glowing was quite nice. 

11/17/15

Well we finally got a decent rain to head us into winter.  Today is dreary again so I decided to share a pop of color.  This is from the Topeka, KS Huff N Puff hot air balloon event I was able to attend a couple of days.  This was on the second evening when they were doing a flight demonstration.

10/12/15

It's a beautiful day!  Wish I had had the day off to be outside.  This image is appropriate because I wanted to be off enjoying the day all day instead of working.  I took this at the Huff and Puff Hot Air Balloon meetup in Topeka, KS last month.  It was neat to be able to see hot air balloons up close and in flight. This was a rather colorful one and I was bale to get it with it's burner going.

9/21/15

What a dreary morning we had today.  I decided to share something colorful because of it.  This is another image from the Huff N Puff Hot Air Balloon Event I got to attend.  Was it just last weekend?  Seems like an age ago.  Anyway, this is from earlier in the evening than the other image.  The propane burners were going on these 2 balloons as they were being inflated for the Balloon Glow portion of the event which was just beautiful.  So colorful and lovely to see.  

9/15/15

So I was able to check off one more thing on my Bucket List this past weekend when I went to the Huff N Puff event in Topeka, KS.  I had always wanted to see and photograph a Hot Air Balloon.  I had seen them before but never up close and never where I was able to get a shot.  So Saturday evening, I was still in Topeka because of doing some steamy stuff.  That evening the balloons were supposed to fly again and as there was not much wind at all I thought it was probably a good chance to see one.  Sure enough, shortly after I arrived at a spot near where they were they began to take off.  It was lovely to watch.  The one on the left had it's burner going making it glow a bit.  I liked seeing them and it would probably be cool to ride in one but not sure I could ever do that so seeing them was good enough for me!  :-)

9/14/15

Well, heading back into the heat this week.  I was kind of hoping we were done with that but we aren't.  This past weekend was quite lovely.  So I mentioned that I got to do something neat a couple days ago and here is an image from that.  I went to the Huff N Puff Hot Air Balloon Meet Up in Topeka, KS on Friday evening.  Unfortunately the wind was too strong for them to fly that evening, it was 10 mph which I found funny as that is nothing for Kansas most days.  Anyway, they did what they call a Glow Event which was very beautiful.  In the evening they inflate the balloons and then use their burners to make them glow.  It was like balloon fireworks and very lovely to see.