Zilker Park Trail of Lights

Welcome to 2013!  I wanted to do a quick post on here with some pictures from the Zilker Park Trail of Lights here in Austin.  I posted all of these on Facebook already, but why have a photography blog if I’m not going to put my photography on it?  For the last two years – my only years in Austin, there was no Trail of Lights due to budget issues, so this was my first visit!  Here’s a brief description of the Trail: Zilker Park is the largest park in Austin and is surrounded by a circular drive where people normally park their cars, but during the time of the Trail, Zliker is shut down and all the lights and various scenes are setup along this circular drive.  You park nearby (or far away) and walk thru the trail, which ends at the huge Christmas Tree made of lights. “The Zilker Tree stands 155 feet tall and is composed of 39 streamers, each holding 81 multicolored, 25-watt bulbs – totaling 3,309 lights” (from austintexas.gov).  It’s pretty impressive in person, and a lot of fun to stand underneath and spin around (last picture).  Hope all my blog readers had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I’ll be doing a “Best of 2012” coming up soon!