Builders and Balloons

Got up even earlier than yesterday, and decided to use the cool of the day for a walk. Just as we left the house, heard the whoosh of hot air balloons right over our house, rushed to get a photo, but realised the lens I had wouldn't get both of them; Mike's did, though, and I got a close-up of one of the baskets going over our bay tree (extra).

On the ancient walled paths through the land below us, men were rebuilding the stone walls. It looks lovely, but not sure what I think about losing all that history... you can see the ones they haven't rebuilt yet in the background.

Gratefuls:
- a delightfully cooler day
- meeting our new neighbours, briefly: Mário, Verena, and Serafina (I think!)
- Cecílio, Ermelinda and their two dogs coming for a short outdoor visit tonight