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[photos] Flying with the Emerald City

As noted yesterday [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ], the_child and I went flying with elusivem in the good aerostat Emerald City. A good time was had by all, except possibly the balloon envelope.

Herewith are the photos…

One intrepid flyer

Another one, not quite like the other one

Basket is out of the trailer

Laying out the envelope

Inflating the envelope

It gets bigger

The neighbors get theirs up

Holding on

Getting ready to fly

Away we go!

Up up up

The view from the basket

Looking up into the envelope from below

Valley, NE, as we sail westward

Chasing Celebration as she leads us on

Cruising low over the Platte River

Our shadow

Flying through the corn as we land

As usual, more at the Flickr set.

Photos © 2011, Chantal Helgasen, B. Lake and Joseph E. Lake, Jr.

This work by Chantal Helgasen, B. Lake and Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tags: Child, Cool, friends, nature, Omaha, Photos

Posted: 4:55 am Fri July 08 2011 |

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• Cora

  July 8th, 2011 at 4:30 pm

  Very cool photos. What strikes me in particular is that both balloons don’t have any advertising on them.

  Ballooning was popular in my region a few years ago to the point that you’d see balloons on the horizon almost every weekend (high fuel prices harmed the popularity). However, pretty much every balloon I ever saw was covered with advertising.

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