Hey, what you doing in my photo
One of the problems I had Sunday while at Old Sturbridge Village was keeping people out of my compositions. My biggest offender though was my own daughter Ashley. She was so exited about being there that she had to run to everything. You'd think we don't bring her anywhere 
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This room was almost impossible to capture. It had a steady flow of people coming in and out. I decided to make the most of it and include a random photographer in my capture.
When the stars line up ….
You get to see something like this!
A string of events led me to have this opportunity to take these photo's this morning. Last weekend while visiting the Norwottuck Rail Trail, we saw a hot air balloon. Michelle made the comment on how neat it would be to go for a hot air balloon ride. Fast forward to Thursday and I find my self at Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua looking for a monopod for my camera. I happened to notice a flier for hot air balloon rides. Being Michelle and my 21st anniversary I thought that would make a good gift. I booked a flight and we will be go up weather permitting on October 10th. So last night I search the web to see if there were any local hot air balloon festivals happening. Lo and behold, there is one today in Hudson which is only 15 miles away.
Not bothering to set my alarm I decided to let things roll as they will. I'm not much of a morning person, so a 6:00 AM launch was questionable. My eyes popped open at 5:29 AM leaving enough time to make it over to Hudson.
Well worth waking up early for.
I was home in time to bring coffee and doughnuts to the rest of the family as they woke up 
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My ride
Plan was to wake up early today and head to the Seaport Museum in Mystic Connecticut which is about 2 hours away from us. Unfortunately Marc had different ideas and kept us up most of the night. Just as well because it gave me time to wash my Sportster pictured above.
I've had this bike for 3 summers now. I bought it after selling my boat (only one toy at a time for me). If you were to ask me which I like better between boating and biking I'd have to lean towards the bike. The main reason for that is Michelle enjoys the bike where she could take or leave the boat.
Keep the paint up and the rubber down!
