Last night, Melissa and I paid a visit to Gainesville's North Florida Regional Medical Center...nothing serious, you understand. No, we were on a sightseeing mission, to the facility's duck pond which rests on its east side by busy Newberry Road. Every Christmas holiday season, they install many lights and decorations there, and residents flock to the site after sunset to view it all. I've managed to live in Gainesville since 1977 and somehow miss this traditional hometown experience, but this year we got out to take a stroll around the grounds. There were a lot of people there, mostly families composed of parents and small children. It was a scene of low-tech extravagance that could have been produced seventy years ago, with pleasant seasonal music piped in on strategically located speakers.
The top picture is a panoramic shot of the duck pond and its surrounding lighting taken from the Newberry Road vantage point. The bottom shot is, well, you know...
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