Let there be light! The Idaho Botanical Garden’s yearly Winter Garden aGlow has been plugged in. If you’ve never visited, it’s time — if for no other reason than to consider how many hours it took to hang these lights. When more than 270,000 bulbs suddenly take over the space, a sparkling metamorphosis occurs. The 15-acre garden becomes a strangely peaceful combination of frigid night stillness, holiday spirit and ... multi-colored psychedelia. (Oops, better lay off the eggnog ... .)

Michael Deeds