Fun Night Walk at the Chicago Botanic Gardens Lightscape

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We've been members of the Botanic Gardens for quite a few years, but we haven't been able to ever attend their "Lightscape" that has grown over the years.

The Gardens are in Glencoe, just north of Chicago proper by a few miles. The property stradles the Edens Highway to Wisconsin. Once upon a time the road was old Hwy. 41 before the Interstate system. It has matured over the years and is definitely my favorite place to go in any season.

Described as a winding walk of 1.8 miles of lights, music and stunning vistas after dusk. I'm including a link to the Gardens description...it's not an advertisement as very few of my reader's are from this area. 

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This was one of the first things we walked through---- a city block of stars...so pretty! 

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These photos are from three different cameras and people. We all have a different way of looking at things. I was fascinated with the colored spots on the bare trees.

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Here the lights from the tree are adequate for interesting lighting on my cohorts!

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These are polyester covered lights you walked through...was very---Avatar like! And safe---the upside of this 'walk' was the amount of children in strollers and seniors in wheel chairs.

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 Entire families were enjoying the entire thing...the temp was about 35...so not unbearable! Yea, that's me, acting like a 10-year old!

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Still photos don't do this walkway justice, with pulsating music and a light show all the way along!

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Huge trees with the super spots on them that faded from one color to the next!

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These were huge and shimmered and changed slowly with colors to the music.

Everything from Opera, to Josh Groban, to Rock, Blues and even some Hip-hop...not to mention Carols, and kid's song---even Gene Autrey and Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer.

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Many sections were sponsered by organizations or companies. This was Bright IDEA and all the trees were plugged in to light bulb type lighting.

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The normally gorgeous lagoons were iced over with wonderful huge 'water lilies'...that morphed in all the colors of the rainbow! 

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A huge field of lights pulsated with music, this was about a half a football field. 

  Gorgeous plaza display!

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More Branches, this was some sort of willow and the long branches hung almost to the ground.

The Cathedral was amazing and was quite long, surrounded by trees! 

I think this was the most popular photo place! 

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I loved our normal favorite Grape Arbor, covered in a woven pattern of rainbow lights! We got so many ideas for our own displays. Can't wait until next year!

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There were tons of photo ops...but this is just two old duffers that made it through the over hour walk...now to trek a quarter mile to the car...LOL. Bundled up---but gosh I was sweating in all those clothes. 

Have Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to ALL!  I used this photo for our Christmas Card...so Enjoy!

Sandi 

Chicago Botanic Gardens Lightscape  Here is the Gardens info on the show...it's worth a peek just for fun! 

We will definitely be going again next year, or for as many years we can!

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