Christmas Lights 2024
Each holiday season the Alaska Botanical Garden in Anchorage puts on a colorful light display at the Botanical Garden grounds. Colored lights are embedded in ice or mounted in recycled plastic bottles that have been cleverly cut into flower shapes. The effect is vividly festive and entertaining. It makes for a pleasant evening walk. Visitors, including many young children, were enthusiastic. Charmed children ran back and forth between displays.
Lights were embedded in ice, some of it dyed.
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Lights marked trails and walks.
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There were giant birds made from woven saplings.
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The colored light displays came in a variety of sizes and shapes.
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Some of the most interesting displays were lighted tree trunks.
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There were text messages, too.
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