The Chinese Lantern Festival

What an amazing evening Meg and I had last night, when she took me to Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden to the Lantern Festival, for an early birthday present.  We went early enough to walk through in the daytime to see the lanterns then, and then stayed to see them lit after dark.  It was amazing.  This dragon was the first lantern we saw when we went inside.  Wow.

The promenade is always one of my favorite places in the garden, and last night, with the jumping dolphins, was no exception.

The pond may have been my favorite exhibit – you can’t see the ducks’ heads moving in this picture, of course, but it was so beautiful.