Illuminations at Botanica

On Friday I went with my family to the local botanical garden here which is simply called Botanica. Every year at this time they decorate nearly every inch of the gardens with lights and call it Illuminations.

The weather was perfect on Friday. Mid 50s and no wind. So of course everyone and their dog was there. Traffic was backed up on three different roads trying to get there. We didn't even try to park close and went straight to the over flow parking a mile away which was already overflowing also! The line for the shuttle was long so we walked the mile over to the garden. I didn't take as many pictures this year but I did take quite a few.

This tree is always so fun with all of the stuff hanging from it.







This large screen is actually made up of thousands of color changing Christmas lights. They had a bunch of different song clips from movies playing on it.




Just some of the fun lights from around the gardens.












And this was really neat. There was a peacock statue and they put lights behind it to give a huge glowing tail. It was hard to get a good picture though.

This is from the front...



And this is from the back.



Over all it was a really fun night and the lights were fantastic!