Family Mellmann

We haven't gone on many long bike rides this year. Partly because it has been an unusually rainy summer and partly because...well, I just don't know. I guess it's partly because Patrick complains too much and we just get tired of hearing it. On the other hand we've just been busy doing other stuff. I guess it doesn't matter. With the weather as beautiful as it has been these last few days we just had to go for a bike ride. So we loaded up all the bikes and went for a waterfront tour. As you can see by her face, Katherine is quite pleased to be going for a bike ride. Patrick was also pleased to go...no complaining on this trip. It was a beautiful day all around.

As long as we have lived on River Cove Road, watching hot air balloons launch and rise over the trees has been a treat for us. All these years and it is still a treat. And this time they even came very close, which doesn't always happen. Typically the wind blows the balloons in a more southwesterly direction taking them past us, but not near us. That made this day special.