Balloons Above the Valley

My wonderful wife Natalie surprised me with a pair of tickets to fly in a hot air balloon above our home here in Napa.    Having never gone ballooning before, and wondering if the wicker baskets were for real, we climbed aboard during sunrise a few weekends ago.   On a one hour, mostly quiet cruise just a few thousand feet above the vines, my extra wide lens chowed down on the views.  Wow.  This was a spectacular adventure that I have been dreaming of my entire life and the best part, as you can imagine (and what made this flight an adventure), was landing. I thought you'd like to enjoy a few photos, of which the last one is where we landed.