Garden d'Lights

Bellevue's Garden d'Lights Festival

This is the 19th year for the festival. 178 volunteers dedicated 8,700+ hours to create this display that has over 1/2 million lights. 

In the past we've been dazzled by Wildlights at The Columbus Zoo and Alum Creek Fantasy of Lights. Bellevue's display is beyond dazzling; it's AWESOME. We're not sure how to describe the design technique. The lights seemed to be clumped together to make the designs instead of being strung in outlines. You can see that technique in the grape vine pictured above. 

Snap d'Dragon - over 135 strings of LED mini-lights - over 200 hours to create

This dragon breathed fire too

Ocean d'Lights - amazing creations

The long, thin cylinders in the tree are "snowfall" lights. The light dropped through the cylinder simulating falling snow. The "purple" river really was blue. Three salmon jumped their way upstream.  60' river made of 12,000 mini LED lights

Children were given a worksheet with objects to find throughout the gardens - spider,  frog, turtle, and many other fun things. You could hear them squealing with delight when they found something on the list.