Candy Cane Lane

Candy Cane Lane is a street in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood that does a spectacular job of decorating every year. We like walking through it instead of driving, since that way you can really take your time and not worry about cars backing up behind you. Plus you have a much easier time taking pictures. Here are the ones from this year:

The carousel in the middle rotates around the big shrub.

The moonglow through these bare trees with ornaments was just lovely

Bit fuzzy, sorry about that.

I loved these lights in the bushes so much, I had to take two pictures!

Aww.

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Pretty pictures to end the week

I don't know about you, but this week has been pretty stressful for me. (Some of you have had far worse weeks than I, and you have my sincerest sympathies.) I was turning lights off last night as we prepared for bed, and was reminded of how much I love the look of Christmas trees lit up in the darkness, so I took a few pictures.

I don't remember where I got this flower thingy, but I like it.

We have two presents!

I like this picture better. Maybe. Different filter.

My favorite ornament from when I was a little girl. My great-grandmother made it.

Just a closeup of the tree. We have beads, too!

Ceiling of the Pantages theater in Tacoma where I attended Patrick's dress rehearsal for the Tacoma Symphony's Sounds of the Season concert. I thought it was pretty.

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