As I started up the fly-over driving from Coors Blvd to I-40, I noticed the balloons in the sun. I got three blind drive-by’s as a drove over the fly-over and under the balloons.
While hot air balloons are a common sight every fall in the Albuquerque area, this balloon flying over the house at sunrise on a very cold February morning was a surprise. Although, with the temperature inversions common to the area, the temperature might have been warmer 200 feet above me where the balloon was than where I was standing photographing it.