Posts Tagged ‘Tacky Light Tour’

Lights: Tacky and Classy for the Holidays

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Lights, lights, and more lights! Light displays, both tacky and classy, abound in Richmond between Thanksgiving and the New Year.

Are these really Tacky Lights, or simply Christmas spirit?

Homeowners across the central Virginia’s  metropolitan area have decked their houses in holiday lights, blow-up decorations, store-bought decorations, home-made decorations – all vying to outdo each other with more, better, and over-the-top displays lighting up their homes with Christmas spirit beginning the Friday after Thanksgiving and ending with the New Year.

But homeowners are not the only ones who go “over the top.”  Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens GardenFest of Lights provides a fantastic display, decorating each garden, water feature, and path with a myriad of lights.  The rose garden even has rose lights for the holiday season. And, The GradenFest of Lights will be on display until January 10th!

This fabulous peacock in lights inhabits the lawn below the conservatory at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

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Tacky Light Tour

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
December 23 was a big night around our Richmond Bed and Breakfast, here in the Historic Fan District. We had arranged for a limo to pick us up and take us to see the houses all gussied up for the tacky lights tour. I think tacky lights may be a Richmond thing because I don’t remember them back in Maryland. I changed into my people garb – canines are not allowed in the limo and went along for the ride.
Tacky Lights are pretty specific, in order to be included on the tour, the house and yard has to have 40,000 lights! Can you imagine? Well, you don’t have to imagine; here are a couple of photos. (more…)