Hot air balloons drift off over miles of adjoining farm fields after their early morning launch at the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at the Airport in Readington, NJ back on 7-25-2009.

For more information on 2010′s New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, visit their web site.

Thanks to flickr member darkwood67 for the use of the free fields texture that I blended into this piece to give it a dreamy feel.

I think O.S.H.A. rules state that even the Energizer Bunny gets a 15 minute break every two hours at work. From my trip to the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, New Jersey on Saturday morning 7-25-2009.

For more information on the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, visit their web site which you may want to bookmark for next year’s event.

For more information on the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, visit their web site which you may want to bookmark for next year’s event.

Inflation (the good kind).

The meeting of two golden ages of aviation.  A World War II vintage fighter plane sits in front of The Hot Air Balloon "Sunset Landing" piloted by Tim Strand.

Hot air balloons and giant shredded wheat. Breakfast of champions !   When the balloons made a sudden change of course during the early morning ascension and headed northward over the farm fields, it gave me the opportunity to incorporate some farm flair into the composition.

I’m sure there is a proper agricultural term for these giant rolled up hay circles but they have always reminded me of giant shredded wheat.