It's a bird; it's a plane...

And now for the truly random.  On Saturday,while minding my own business and piddling around in my kitchen,  I heard this really unusual sound and saw this shadow pass by my windows.  I actually though a plane was about to land in my yard!  Instead, this is what we saw, landing almost in our backyard! 

Since we live next door to the neighborhood water retention area   a greenbelt, it was the perfect place to land a balloon.  I actually thought the area was better suited to touch football, but now I know this space has multiple uses.  Of course, I ran for the camera and snapped a few shots.  I mean, how often does a balloon land almost on top of  next to your house! 

You can see how close it was to the house and my beautiful live oak tree which I cherish.  When it first came down it was actually right outside that window on the right, casting a wierd shadow (a shadow remnant is in the picture).   I shudder to think of what I would've done to anyone who had lopped a branch off of my tree with their balloon.  Whew! Glad I didn't have to find out - it would've been real ugly!

I have to admit, if I had a balloon, I would've been out in it on Saturday! It was one of those perfect Texas winter days with a deep blue sky and a high of about 60 degrees. I always think beautiful winter days like this are our reward for enduring the brutal Texas summer.  

I've been pondering all week on how to turn this incident into an apron and I just can't come up with any ideas.  Pass any ideas along if you have one!