Christmas At the Gardens

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The light display this year at the Botanical Garden is spectacular, even without any snow. They claim there are over 1.5 million lights.


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The mild temperatures that we have been having made it much more pleasant to walk through and enjoy the lights. It's certainly much easier to take pictures when your fingers aren't freezing!

The displays are dazzling, but I love it when there is a bit of snow on the ground to hide the electrical cords. Even though most of the lights are LED, I always wonder what the electrical bill must be!

Admission to get in is $12 for adults and $5 for children. They have limited hours and lights go off at 9pm.
The walk is about 2/3rds of a mile, but you can walk at your own pace and stay as long as you like.

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Lovely. Merry Christmas 🎅🎅🎅 Is this in Chicago or Wisconsin?

Rotary Gardens is here in Janesville. It is such a beautiful place. One of the best gardens in the Midwest. When I was a kid it was an abandoned quarry where local kids went to get up to all sorts of shenanigans!

Thats a cool back story 👍 seems every midWest town had a quarry with a reputation as a place kids got into trouble. And various other urban legends.

That beauty! Christmas is so beautiful😍😍😍

It is! Have you started planning your Christmas time meals?

Not yet, but if I want to make asado negro and I would like to make a shrimp hallacas, let's see how these days go. I'm saving money to paint the living room so I can put up the Christmas tree. I imagine the boys will go to your house. What is the typical food there for Christmas?

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Very beautiful clicks. Lightning is looking very attractive and especially its bridge view.

I love that bridge! Here is a summer picture of it.

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Very beautiful view 😍 Nature always inspired me alot.

Wow, the colour of the light is awesome. Christmas is full of excitement

It is a festive time of year!

Beautiful captures on beautiful Christmas ahead

It is such a lovely time of year!

I am Wowed at this! So speechless, my mouth could not close at the sight of this photos...so beautiful.
Christmas is indeed a gift of beauty. Merry Christmas

It is a beautiful time of year!

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Wow this is pretty spectacular. Gotta love all the lights. The place seems magical. It would be lovely to explore indeed. Thank you for sharing the beautiful photos. Oohh I didn't know one can now add a video via ecency. That's pretty interesting. Happy midweek!


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Beautiful walk, I loved especially the red bridge and the last photo. Feels good, yeah! 🥰

Christmas is such a beautiful time of the year!

Looks really stunning. It does.
My inner voice (which sometimes is really annoying) says 1.5 million lights that huge amount of energy.
But the energy ... all that energy (Anna Hathaway voice from Interstellar)
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I'm with you. It's a fund raiser for the garden, so I suppose that is how they justify it. It is such a huge waste of energy.

1.5 million lights!

I also wonder about the cost of such lighting and the electricity bills!

Thanks for the photographs.

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It is excessive. I certainly have conflicting feelings about their lighting display.

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Lights are always beautiful
I love the beauty
They look very awesome

A walk through the garden gets you in the holiday spirit!

You are ready to celebrate Christmas!

I'm looking forward to the family being together!

And recently my daughter and her family left us. And in 2 days I will go to visit them. My son and his family will come to us in early January. It was not possible to bring all the children together this year.

Wow! Preparations for the New Year holidays are in full swing!

People come from all over to see the light display.

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Wow those are beautiful! Well worth the admission price. It's nice that is wasn't too cold so you could take your time to enjoy them. I love Christmas lights!

That's a whole lot of pretty lights, @melinda010100, and I love that the video was taken using a testing version of the Ecency app! It's nice the temperatures were more mellow, so that taking photos was more pleasant! I know what it feels like to have your fingers freezing as you try to take photos! I'm glad that you had a good time! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

That's why i love Christmas . This is Magical ✨

The beauty of those lights among the plants is breathtaking. If they are beautiful in your extraordinary photos, I can imagine how beautiful they must be to see them personally. Fraternal greetings.

It is quite a show! They spend several months putting up all those lights and it is magical!

Muchas gracias. Es realmente muy bello el espectáculo que ofrecen esa enorme cantidad de luces. Yo, a no ser por fotografías, no he podido disfrutar de algo semejante!