This time of the year is know for decorating buildings, houses, trees, various public spaces with multicolor lights. Wherever we go: supermarkets, malls, businesses or just drive by the neighborhoods we see beautiful decorations with lights. One of the venues in the Pacific Northwest, Bellevue Botanical Garden, has a tradition of creating gardens of lights. This event is called Garden d'Lights, which started many years ago as way to encourage visitors to come to the Bellevue Botanical Garden in the winter. We got an opportunity to visit Garden d'Lights as a family.

This is my favorite one, the Aquarium. According to the information given there, it has 19 different feature. We didn't bother counting and simply enjoyed the art.

This one resembled sunflower garden.

Do you see the butterflies?

Although there were signs explaining which theme represented what kind of garden, it was hard to tell because it was dark and lights from decorations wasn't enough to read. So, we continued enjoying the view and left the rest for imagination.

This one wasn't hard to tell. A scarecrow, a rabbit and carrots.

Cornfield lights and I think lights on the tree looked like a rake leaning against the tree. Your guess might better than mine.

This one had a tropical theme.

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There were also many different kinds of flowers.

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According to the booklet we we received more than half a million lights make up the Garden d'Lights display. Approximately thirty volunteers create, maintain, and install the lights over a 11-month period, using colored lights strings, zip-ties and rebar. Hundred more volunteers work during the event. Installation takes more than four weeks.

Of course they had a Christmas tree decorated as well.

There were many more beautiful garden themes created by lights. These were the few of them I was able to capture. Photographs don't really do the justice to these creations of art. Color were bright and vibrant, some of the themes had moving lights giving and twinkly lights.

Our visit ended with a musical entertainment performance by Bellevue Ukulele Players.

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Happy New Year Everybody!