Holiday Lights - Tale of Two Cities, pt.2.

Pt.2: Rewind forward exactly one year, and that brings us to Holidays of 2015...

This time around, I am staying put, here in the city there my heart is.

Holiday Light NYC.

New York, New York.

Rediscovering places I love, visiting new places to fall in love with.

Every Holiday season, this city perks up, dresses up, and dazzles us with twinkling lights and magical things to see.

 

New York Botanical Garden.

First stop on a quest for lights: New York Botanical Garden & Holiday Train Show.

It is wonderfully whimsical and magical place to visit for Holidays.

Holiday Train Show.

Holiday lights and wonders of New York... Here stand all bridges - from Brooklyn Bridge to GWB, in all their glory, lights twinkling, and toy trains running across... Here is Manhattan and Statue of Liberty... Brooklyn Brownstones, and Alice Austin Staten Island's Museum... Penn Station and New York Library... Queens World Fair grounds... Conservatory itself... And even Little Red Lighthouse! All carefully built from pine cones, twigs, plants, moss and everything else that grows.

Holidays spirits are alive and well here.
I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve.

Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

As we walk outside, the vision of Conservatory in beautiful colors captivate me, and then, we see snowflakes lights on asphalt - they are projections, lighting up the alley. 

They lead us to group of Christmas trees growing on intersection of the roads, decorated with lights and shiny spheres.

There is no better way to get into Holiday Spirits than this evening.

Next - Union Square Market & South Street Seaport. I love being here this time of the year. A little bit of shopping, and a walk around South Street Seaport Christmas Tree is a cheer that put a smile on my face. 

I manage to get a new scarf and a selfie!

Our last stop on New York Holiday tour - 5th Ave. 

Holiday Windows!

 

Bergdorf Goodman.

One advantage of making it to the city late - no people and almost no cars on the street. So we can walk, gawk, laugh and look at our own pace.

Bergdorf Goodman.

 We start with good ol' Bloomies, make out way to Bergdorf Goodman glittery windows, to Tiffany's small wonders (I loved those displays the most. They were truly magical in detail and design!), and finally, to Sacks - just in time for light show to start. Music was playing, and whole building becomes a show of dancing lights.

 

Tiffany's.

Tiffany's.

Sacks Fifth Ave.

...The last windows to see, and take magic of New York to special place in our hearts...

I cannot believe it been a year between those two journeys. 

And year itself was greatest adventure yet - looking back at it, I feel lucky to have photo opps I had, and grateful to have my friends, old and new. 

I am happy to be here once again, to Love, to Live, to warm my Heart and heal my Soul.

This is may be an end of this blog post -  but it marks a beginning of the journey, to most wonderful Unknown, to beautiful Will Be and incredible Road of Life.

It been a ride - let's keep burnin' it down!

We raise our glasses to celebrate best year we had, and even better year to come.

To 2016.