Wishing you a Merry Christmas and an Enchanted Evening of Lights

Merry Christmas to all of you who have supported me throughout the year! Here is a card I wish I could have sent to each and everyone of you and some photos of a evening walk my friend, my daughter and I shared the other evening.  It was probably the coldest and most beautiful evening we will have before the new year. The cool clear evening made for a delightful stroll through acres of festively  lit gardens along the Intracoastal waterway here in our town. Please take a moment and stroll along with me. Sorry for the poor photo quality--I phone's are not meant for this type of photography, but it's all I have.

Structure made entirely from bottles.

Paper butterflies on trees in the butterfly house. Too cool for real butterflies!

Grape arbor; even more beautiful when it got dark. 

Hyacinths made from lights along paths and in a huge flower bed.

It took us several looks to verify that these are fake trees, all made of beautiful lights.

  This is one of the hundreds of old TALL live oaks (some of them over 300 years old!) lit with huge 3 dimensional stars. Each star is approximately 4 feet across.

  There were many, many of these "trees" about 30 ft. tall in all different colors.

These swans and dragon made of lights are across a lake, so they are actually very large. There are real swans that live in the lake in season--no real dragons that I know of!
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This last photo did not turn out well, but it is a dock across the lake and some geese hanging out in the glow. Looks spooky and quite beautiful in real life!

Wishing you and your families and/or friends a  lovely Christmas! See you in 2016!

Sara Emily