Monday, December 12, 2011

A Nice Surprise

After running errands almost all day, Chris told me he had a surprise for me.  At 8 pm and under a crisp, clear night sky we took off.  I had no idea where we were going and after a 20 minute drive I wound up seeing this ahead.


The Hartwood celebration of lights is a 3 1/2 mile drive thru of all these different scenes set up with Christmas Lights.  Hartwood is also a huge mansion (much like Pittock) where they do up the house in Christmas garb and you can tour it during the day. 
Some of the pictures I got are blurry because we weren't allowed to stop the car as there were a steady stream of cars throughtout the drive. (Chris stopped the car when he could but I still managed to blur some of them with the low light condition)  Enjoy!




























There were lots of cool drive through arches (some pictured above) but the coolest one was at the end where there were tons of colors running so it made it look like you were moving even when you weren't.  I left the shutter open on my camera and got the picture below.  Pretty cool!