A Cook and Her Books: Magical nights of garden lights

Lights at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

A million lights and 30 acres of trees made the Atlanta Botanical Gardens the place to be on a warm December evening this week. This is the second year of the Garden Lights and it was a magical journey for my little one and me. A few pictures from the evening...

Entrance to Atlanta Botanical Garden. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

We began with a walk through the Storza woods along the Canopy Walk. From the soaring walkway, we could see the cars lining up to get into the garden.

Lights at Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

Lights. Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

Lights at Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

These lights reminded me of Dr. Seuss - it's the Cat in the Hat and Truffula trees all together.


Lights at Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books Into the the Edible Garden where grasshoppers and flowers lit up alongside cabbages and herbs. These groovy space shapes changed colors in sync with music - Michael Buble's "Feelin' Good" while we were there.

Lumina at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

Above, Lumina, the beautiful Snow Queen, stopped for pictures with the children.

Below, s'mores over the firepit.

A break for s'mores. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

The Chihuly fountain is lovely at all times, but especially radiant with lights.

Chihuly fountain. Atlanta Botanical Garden. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

It's very hard for a seven year old to stay away from the fountain, even when a gentleman is popping the question to his girlfriend on this lovely evening. (and yes, that happened while we were here!)