Flying High

A good day to ride high in the sky in a hot air balloon.  It seemed so majestic to watch it quietly drift high in the air with its basket of people huddled underneath.  My mum went on a hot air balloon ride a few years ago and really enjoyed it.  It is not something I fancy doing though - the safety aspect worries me.  In fact after I took this photograph the balloon sudden disappeared from sight - I think it must have landed or have popped over the horizon somehow! 

Hot air balloons used to take off regularly from the green in West Linton (the village where I lived in Scotland).  It was such an exciting spectacle to watch the balloon gradually fill with air, to get upright and then for everyone to jump in the basket before it made its final push upwards into the sky.