Wrong turn at Carneros?

Steve Meloan was on his way into the Basque Boulangerie on Tuesday morning when something caught his eye — a hot air balloon heading west over Sonoma Plaza.

“It was amazingly low, such that I could hear the roar of its gas jets. I assumed the pilot just wanted to give his passenger’s a bird’s eye view of the Plaza, but I later heard that he actually landed in a residential yard in Temelec. Not sure if it was wind, or what. Nevertheless, a very ‘Sonoma’ image hovering over the Plaza!”