Lantern festival sheds light on St. Louis nights

INDIANAPOLIS STAR

"The Welcoming Dragon" stretches across the
center median at the Missouri Botanical Garden

This summer, 26 mammoth Chinese lantern installations will light up the night at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. "Lantern Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night" features pieces up to three stories tall, made with steel frames and more than 28,000 yards of colorful silk. The festival is among the largest of its kind in the United States. Other show-stoppers include "Lotus Ponds," a large, spinning vase surrounded by 8-foot-tall stems of lotus flowers, and "Heavenly Temple," a three-story installation that mimics the Beijing Heavenly Temple constructed in 1420. [link]