On Monday night I'd planned for the family to see the VIVID in the gardens but everyone, including my partner declined. Apparently my enjoyment of VIVID is insatiable. So I headed in solo. It was easier to walk quickly and move through the people without my entourage. On Monday, the city was celebrating 200 years to the day, of the birth of Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. I'd been there for the Bicentenary celebrations. We were married in the Rose Garden. I'd spent many a day at performances, parties and picnics there. Even the preschooler playgroup, the Dandy Lions, had been part of my kids life growing up. When each child turned 4, we'd head off and follow the footsteps of the fabulous Pamela Allen's wayward little duck in Alexander's Outing. It felt fitting that I'd returned again for their special day. It's funny how much a part of the backdrop the gardens have played in my life.
We are lucky to have such a beautiful location accessible to all the people of Sydney.
The charm of this city makes it hard not to love life!
Thank you for sharing your VIVID visits - I've lived vicariously through you. I need to make a note when it is on so that I can try to arrange a visit down when it happens next year.
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Oh, I had no idea that the Botanical Gardens had turned 200! Vivid would've been awesome there. We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful city x
ReplyDeleteI've adored Vivid too.but onky one of my family shared the enthusiasm
ReplyDeleteI've really loved your Vivid pics! Such a great event and - as you say - accessible to everyone!
ReplyDeleteYour entourage! LOL.
ReplyDeleteWow, 200 years of the botanic gardens. I was in Sydney for Australia Day 200. That was so incredibly special (and sooooo long ago now).
Thanks for joining the Lovin' Life Linky!
This looks absolutely awesome - I can see why you have an insatiable appetite for it! #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteWow this place looks amazing! I can't believe your family didn't want to join you though?
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up to #KCACOLS and I hope to see you back again next week X
So beautiful! Can't wait til I get to go!
ReplyDeleteI can't say that I know what VIVID is, but this looks pretty awesome to me. Australia is on my list of places I plan to visit #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteFab photos colourful and effective too :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a vividtastic week :-)
More fantastic photos from Vivid. More incentive to go.
ReplyDeleteVery creative use of your camera!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/06/drip-drip-drip.html
I really want to go one year.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty lights! That would be fun to go to.
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So pretty!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful captures.Beautiful and colourful light effects.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I missed it- love your photos and backstory.
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up.
You've taken some very beautiful shots. I was there but missed photographing some of these.
ReplyDeleteThe botanical gardens look so pretty lit up like that. I can't believe your "entourage" didn't want to go also?! So surprising! Looks like you had fun even without them though. :)
ReplyDeleteAll I can is 'wow.' Shame your lot wouldn't come with you, but maybe it was more magical alone? Something you can keep to yourself and treasure. Think of it like that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Please don't get me wrong - I didn't mind going solo - the entourage are spoilt Sydneysiders who take our beautiful city for granted - they'd been 4 other sites. And then we went again on a boat on Saturday night!
ReplyDeleteSuper amazing colors!
ReplyDeleteThat was a gorgeous shot. Thanks for sharing at Create with Joy. I linked today too. I am following you. I hope you can come over and visit me.
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Amazing, I would have loved to experience this.
ReplyDeleteWell then you did the right thing...going alone is much more fun! I went to Vivid twice three years ago. Now we are out of Sydney and unlikely to return I am glad I went. I too love the Botanical gardens and in fact used to come into the city on many a weekend just to take pics there and out and about in the city!
ReplyDeleteGreat shots! Enjoyed your visit.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful! Visiting Sydney is definitely on my bucket list. Thanks for sharing with #SocialButterflySunday! Hope to see you link up again this week :)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy light displays at a garden. It is amazing how much it can change the lay of the land. This is lovely. Thank you for sharing at Life Thru the Lens.
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More cool light shots!And how lovely you were married in the Rose garden, would have been a stunning location!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful night shots ~ exquisite!
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I fully agree with your title, and you got all of those in these photos. I missed the Botanical Gardens in my last visit in 2014, but was there my first time in Australia several years before. Sydney and suburbs always remain very dear to me, and i always reminisce every moment and pictures in my mind.
ReplyDeleteLovely show of lights!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous way to celebrate. Great photos.
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ReplyDeleteThe Cathedral of light was absolutely spectacular this year... I am so happy I saw it. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteWhat fabulous nighttime displays. Some places are very special to our hearts. This seems to be one of those places of good memories for you.
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