Light can feel like magic, especially when it is making Chinese lanterns glow. Each year the Botanical Gardens displays theme-based Chinese lanterns which are designed in Montreal and made in Shanghai. This year's theme was astronomical, with lanterns representing the Chinese asterisms or constellations. There is one below. The lanterns lights danced on the water.
There were also a number of lanterns of performers: musicians, acrobats...
If you want to view a couple more photos click to see a dragon and another dragon.
It's quite magical and a lovely way to spend an evening, the warmth of the light fending off some of the damp chill of a drizzly autumn evening.
You can learn more about this event here.
