June 10, 2003

It's been way too nice weatherwise lately as that I could have justified spending my time in front of the computer.

Guilt has driven me however to go ahead and post at least an Image of the Day for my valued readers.

It's a panorama shot from a local event last weekend: the first annual Balloons over Bend.

Getting up at the ungodly hour of 4am on Saturday, I drove into town to catch the inflating and launching of the balloons in the golden morning light. And indeed - like huge magical mushrooms, they grew from their flat selves into a dazzling assembly of scintillating colors, popping up from the green of the football field, and up and up into the blue summer sky over Bend.

It was a thrill to see, and well worth rolling out of bed early for. The evening lighting ceremony of six of the balloons in downtown Bend was, while terribly uncoordinated, interesting too, and if my images turned out, some more balloon pics will get posted here in the very near future.