About Andrew Phelps
Andrew Phelps is a WBUR reporter and the host of Hubbub, a new blog about Boston.

I had no idea that hot-air balloons are so large up close! Today (yesterday), I wanted to photograph this big thing while it lay on the ground inflating, sulking like a beached whale, but I didn’t have my camera in time.

Andrew Phelps is a WBUR reporter and the host of Hubbub, a new blog about Boston.
We had one of those land in the then undeveloped field across the street from our house. Now that you’ve brought it up I’ll have to search for the photos.