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We visited Leavenworth early this year and the small town still decorated with beautiful Christmas lights. We shopped around at a famous store named ‘Kris Kingle’ which is an year round Christmas store. The decoration inside was beautiful and we captured few shots.

Sharing this here for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.

Colorful Blur

 

Decorated Christmas trees at Leavenworth taken in a ‘Blur’ way to capture the colorful lights.
Sharing here for Weekly Photo Challenge.

Another motion blur can be found here.

One Word Photo Challenge: Olive

This picture of Disney characters was shot recently at Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World at Orlando, Florida.

It is shared for One Word Photo Challenge by Jennifer. Merry Christmas!

Garden d’Lights

Garden d’Lights is an annual light show held at Bellevue Botanical Garden each year from Thanks Giving to New Year. It features over ½ million tiny lights which transform the garden into a blossoming winter wonderland, capturing the “d’Light” in everyone.

This is a beautiful place to witness the Christmas lights in Bellevue. These pictures are from our visit last December on a cold winter evening.

View from the entrance

Close up view with the duck

Central view

Garden frog

Beautifully decorated flower beds

All bushes are covered with tiny lights

Sparkling flowers and butterfly

Flowers twinkling with lights

Each corner of the garden is lit up

Grape vines

Close up of a colorful parrot

Christmas tree at the garden

Snowflake Lane

As Christmas is close by I thought of sharing a post indicating the spirit of this festival. Snowflake Lane is one of the most beloved holiday event in the Seattle area. It takes place in Downtown Bellevue where each night, from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, the bustling streets are magically transformed into an extravagant winter wonderland; featuring falling snow, twinkling lights,  enchanting winter characters and lively musical dance performers.

These pictures are from last season’s parade. We went in early to grab a good spot as the street gets very crowded with families specially of children. The traffic is rerouted during the parade time and people are cordoned at many areas of the street. We managed to find a place in the front row of the sidewalk.

Street view with the dazzling lights and projections

Illuminating street with colorful Christmas lights

Crowd gathered to watch the initiation ceremony of the Snowflake Lane

Parade begins with the traditional holiday music

Toy soldier drummers leading the way

Candy cane girls

Snowflake princess and prince

Snowman

Polar bear of the North Pole

 

Snowflake penguin

Sugar plum fairy

Santa’s reindeers

Here comes Santa Claus spreading the joy of Christmas

Beautiful snowfall created at the street

Cheerful drummer

This was a fun parade to watch and I returned signing Christmas carols on my way.

Twinkle

Here is a cart decorated with Christmas lights at Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley National Park, California. It was shot last winter and indicates the Twinkle of the colorful lights.

This is my contribution for Weekly Photo Challenge: Share with us your photos of twinkling light.