Photo of the Week: Hot Air Balloons Over Kensington Metropark

When I went birding at Kensington Metropark this weekend, I expected to see hickory, walnut, and maple trees changing into their brilliant fall color as well as gulls and waterfowl in Kent Lake. What I didn’t expect was not one, not two, but three colorful hot air balloons slowly making their way northeast over the lake. Caught me by surprise, since I knew hot air balloon festivals in southeast Michigan are typically in summer and sometimes in September. I searched online, but couldn’t find any local hot air balloon festivals this weekend. But I did discover there are southeast Michigan companies offering hot air balloon rides to see fall colors. I checked the schedule for one hot air balloon company in nearby Oxford, Michigan and found they had a flight at the time we were at the park. Mystery solved! The post Photo of the Week: Hot Air Balloons Over Kensington Metropark first appeared on Lireo Designs.