Christmas lights, 2018

You know, something, just something has me convinced that it might be Christmas. Off hand, I can't think quite what it could be, but ...!

Seriously, people do amazing things with the new LED light systems, and there's one particular street, Nari Drive at Lonsdale (the map at left is uploaded full size for readability: click on it) where residents really get into the fine art of turning their homes and gardens into miniature theme parks for the holidays. What they've done with lights must have cost a fortune, and also it wouldn't be quick to set this lot up (and take it all down again in January or February ... Aussies tend to leave the decorations up for a long time. We're also spoiled rotten in terms of climate: notice that these lights are strung among green trees and shrubs). Uh huh: summertime down under.

As you cruise up to the curve in Nari Drive, you see that the whole street's illuminated:

...and that street is full of cars cruising slowly, and people walking by to see the show. It's quite the event. I took a lot of photos, because I knew half of them would be blurred (after dark, in a moving car? It's borderline astonishing that I got good shots at all), and here are the best:

And to top it all off, the crescent moon was high, setting in the west and bright enough for the whole disk to be visible to the naked eye. The night was warm and lovely...

...and thanks to Dave for arriving home from work at about nine at night, and saying, "Grab your camera and jump in the car. You have to see this." Great! 😃