Continuing with the flight theme of the evening (three astronauts just launched to the ISS and are already in Earth orbit!) here’s the third of the hot air balloons from Sunday. I always find it amusing to see beer advertisements on these – do they serve alcoholic beverages on board? :-)

I’ll skip the second round of flowers today, instead here’s a bit of sky painting from late April.

The second of the three hot air balloons which flew over our city yesterday – I liked this one most :-).

No, this is not a Vogon spaceship, but it flew right above us about an hour ago – and two more came along after it, although not directly overhead. These were the first hot-air balloons we have seen here for years, apparently they were trying to land at our small airport south-east from us!

Another photo of the very strange Piaggio P.180 Avanti we saw two days ago – from this angle, it doesn’t look so weird, but the noise sounded unlike any other plane we usually have around here!

I’ve heard the familiar deep engine buzz several times in the last few days and saw it flying in the distance, but only today I had a chance to take the traditional first photo of our local WDL Blimp – and they have a new sponsor this year after they had to fly “solo” just with their own logo for a couple of years. It’s terribly expensive to actually fly with it, but the “Zeppelin” is one of the trademarks of our region and it’s always great too see it flying again after the winter hiatus.

Half tree, half clouds. A quite typical view from the balcony :-).

The Rowan in front of our side of the house is getting bigger and bigger –
and makes a nice silhouette for a sunset!

Great mountains of clouds were rolling by in the east this afternoon…

Something unposted from November – it looked a little like Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier :-).