As I'm caught up on events again, not much to do but share my recap of what's going on in Gasoline Alley (it's a lot of cat stuff) and then show pictures from Crossroads Village, from our visit late last year:
Here's that much-discussed giant ornament that you can walk through. This isn't exposure games; it's really bright.
Cut the exposure down a little and you can see how it's structured, though.
Looking at the top of the ornament, with particularly intense light strands to suggest the painting atop a bulb.
And here's a view from the door up to the top of the ornament, done at a Dutch angle because you know me.
Here's a more normal angle looking out the door to the lights of the village beyond.
The walls of the ornament, with the village out behind, and tilted to the vertical because this was a more interesting composition.
Back out of the ornament now, with one of the village trees and some strands of light on a tree in front of it.
Box ornaments set up around the tree so as to keep it from rolling away when I put the picture at a severe angle.
But there's the top of the tree, and my proof that I can take a normal picture when I want.
Couple of chicken light fixtures, over by a part of the village where I think they might keep chickens during the summer? Or at least look like they do.
Arch of light and a Happy Holidays animated sign off on a path that you have no reason to visit if you're there on foot. On a drive-through day I believe this is the way out of the village.
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bunnyhugger pondering walking through the dimensional portal.
Trivia: William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, sent President Thomas Jefferson a live prairie dog. Source: On The Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks, Simon Garfield.
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