Asian Lantern Festival

We visited the Asian Lantern Festival at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson last night. The weather was perfect and the lanterns were beautiful in the dark.

The dragon is the symbol of my birth year and there were some stellar examples at the festival.

The creators did an incredible job of building vignettes of classic Chinese themes.

Even though we are regular visitors to the zoo, navigating the paths is very different at night. Everytime we rounded a corner, we saw something lovely. In keeping with the location, there were lots of animals, but there were other stunning arrangements, too. 

It would be hard to pick a favorite, but this one especially captured my attention.

Each lantern is hand-sewn 

by an individual artist.

 

Leopards in the distance...

A wonderful way to celebrate our 20th anniversary.