The Gang

[35mm Film Scan FujiColor ISO 400]

Trying to decide on which image to post is always difficult.  This year I want to focus more on the group-the family.  Today we met a kind couple who offered their back porch to celebrate the morning's flight.  Here, Dale is telling the story of how at the dawn of the balloon age, in France, the balloonists would carry wine and champagne to prove they were not aliens.  To his right are the happy newlyweds.  He ends with the invocation of the Balloonist's Prayer

The Balloonist's Prayer 

The winds have welcomed you with softness. 

The sun has blessed you with his warm hands. 

You have flown so high and so well 

that God joined you in laughter 

and set you gently back into 

the loving arms of Mother Earth.

Actually left the house without film.  I wound up stopping at the gas station by the Lazy Mule Saloon and they hooked me up!  But here is a picture of Chameleon so you can get your fix.  (Of course I use the word "picture" because it is actually on film...)

[35mm Film Scan FujiColor ISO 400]