Beautiful photo. The largest hot-air balloon gathering in the world is actually in Albuquerque, NM every October though. Some mornings over 600 balloons launch!

At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah’s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, [...]