Beautiful Dawn’s breath
Held the balloons on the ground
Eternal hours wait
Sun’s rays break through clouds
Shining favor on balloons
Green flag lets them fly
Up up and away
One flew under broken clouds
Crazy as it seems
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Let The Light Shine Down
Off Center & Not Even 
Perfect verse, marvelous images, and bunches of balloons. Especially liked the critter face balloon in #9.
Thanks, Maj & Sher.
#9 caught my eye as well.
Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
Love your poems. Perfect pairing with your lovely shots.
Thanks, Dale. I started out explaining how the winds at dawn delayed the launch, blah, blah, blah. How stupid and boring was that? So I challenged myself to explain the morning events in pics and three Timkus.
Which you did muy successfully!
This has to be so much fun to watch. Beautiful captures.
Thanks, Rebecca.
Love this.
Thanks, Saania.
So beautiful Timothy
Thanks, Holly.
You’re welcome!
Wow Tim gorgeous photographs and words. Perfectly beautiful 🦋❤️🌹
Thanks, Joni.
Beautiful!
Thanks, Inge.
Fabulous. Love your words too.
Thanks, Shey.
Ah, now… there’s my weekly fix! Thank you so much for this!
You are so welcome, Marina. Have a great week.
You too, Tim!!🙏
I love the buttery clouds in the first two photos!
They were sloppily spread. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim. 😀
Always love Timku’s! A festival grounded… yikes. Glad they got off the ground. Fabulous pictures.
Thanks, Nancy. I’m not sure they are going to get off the ground this morning.
Lovely poem and photos!
Thanks, Dawn.
love your combining you gorgeous pics and poetry Tim. How fun is this❣️
Thanks, Cindy.
Beautiful dawn photos, Tim. Those balloons sure are colorful!
47 and foggy here this morning. The sun is finally cutting through.
It’s been in the low 40s. Cloudy and windy this morning so the balloons didn’t fly. Thanks, Lavinia.
Love those sun rays.
Thanks, Jeff.
Just incredibly vibrant colors on the 4th and 7th balloon shots – as if they were just painted on the sky. Absolutely amazing.
Thanks, Brian. The balloons have amazing colors.
Cool TimKu’s!
The ballon event is a big deal.
Does it bring in a lot of $$$$ for the state?
Lot’s of dollars. With 768 balloons and around a million people coming to town for the event, the population of Albuquerque doubles and it increases the State’s population by 1/3 for a couple of weeks. Crime goes up, also. Some one actually stole a balloon. I think it was like a gang initiation thing or something like a TikTok challenge. What is anyone going to do with a stolen balloon? It was recovered.
Stealing a balloon! Where the heck could one hide that? Take it out for a float and no one notices?
Anyway, it sounds like a great time & business injection for Albuquerque & New Mexico.
Yahoo!!!!!
They found where the theives had taking the truck and balloon by using the Find My Phone on an iPad that is in the truck.
HA!!!!!
Such vibrant colors here! I absolutely love the more unusual looking ones. So fun!
Thanks, LaShelle.
Beautiful skies .. great poems Tim! Good to see them up and away
Thanks, Julie. The weather has been a problem this year.