Gardens Aglow!

The Heritage Museum & Gardens is located on the banks of Shawme Pond in Historic Sandwich. Its 100 acres of gardens feature rhododendrons, hydrangeas, daylilies, hostas, herbs, heather gardens, and more than a thousand varieties of trees, shrubs, and flowers. There is an old car museum and a carousel, too.

We went to the Heritage last night. Although we were too late to see the rhodies and the hydrangea, we were early enough to see the annual Gardens Aglow spectacular. 

Gardens Aglow is an annual celebration of lights that takes place between Thanksgiving and just before Christmas. It reminded us of a scaled down version of A Longwood Christmas, which is the gardens and conservatories of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, all dressed up for the Christmas season.

After yucky, rainy weather yesterday, the skies cleared for a lovely walk through the gardens last night. The wind stayed away, too. The lights were sweet. 

The Windmill 

Tulips

In addition to a large windmill, there was a train that ran over the George Washington Bridge over above the Hudson River and the Sagamore Bridge above the Cape Cod Canal.

The GW Bridge With Windmill in Background

There were basic lights and whimsical lights, but all were entertaining and uplifting.

Spheres

Raining Color!

Presidential Limousine for President Taft
(Seeing the cars made TSO happy)

Unfortunately, the most spectacular sight could not be captured with our cell phone cameras. (See, there still is a use for standard cameras.) We went through a grove of trees that were lighted by laser pointer lights that danced on the tree trunks and limbs and the ground cover. It looked like the grove was filled with colorful fireflies from the ground to the tops of the trees through which we could see also see the bright, shining stars in the night sky. It was absolutely magical -- and romantic!

I highly recommend Gardens Aglow. Unfortunately, it sells out early. We were fortunate to have purchased our tickets many months ago.