DC Temple Lights and Kent's Stafford Festival of Lights

 Kent and I had a couple of times to see the DC Temple Christmas lights early in the month.

These first pictures were when we went to work on our Friday night shift. This photo shows us more clearly,

 but this one is better to show all the white lights on the trees leading to the Temple.

I love this picture because of the dusky lighting in the background and because it shows the stained glass on either side of the entry way.

I took up my Bible study friends to see the Temple lights on the Monday after the Nativity exhibit.

 These are all the lights around the Visitor's Center. We attended the nightly concert they had in the auditorium.

This tree was particularly full of lights. 

 It seems like every year the lights are a little bit different.

 This view was taken from the parking lot of the visitor's center.

I love this one with the temple surrounded by the colorful Christmas lights.

Each year Kent's Christmas lights display is a little bit different, too. This year he hired someone to put lights around the second floor roof lines.

This year he was inspired by the nativity exhibit to purchase a small vinyl nativity to put in the front of our house.

 This is the sign at the entrance to our neighborhood (which is on our property.)

Here it is again when we had an unusual light snowfall on the 9th of December.

 This is the sidewalk and gate on the left side of the house down to the backyard.

Here it is again in the snow.

Here's the view on the other side of the gate.

These are the light flowers Kent made to go with his "flower garden" theme. 

 These are the trees to the right of the house closest to the road.

 The same trees in the snow from a bit farther away. I love the lights on the little bridge!

Both the lighted fence swags and the azalea hill lights in the back yard (in the distance) were new additions for 2017.

Here's a close up of the azalea hill. It takes Kent several days in the month of November for him to put up all the lights, but they really are some of the prettiest lights in our area.