E-luminate

The thing about really awful weather - and the weather here has been really, really awful - is that it makes you appreciate a sunny day and a beautiful, clear night in a way you just don't when you can count on good weather a majority of the year. It was just glorious waking up today to no wind and bright blue skies.

Our beautiful winter day stretched into a beautiful winter night. We decided to take advantage of it by taking a family walk around Cambridge to check out the E-luminate Festival.

The E-luminate festival is described as a festival connecting "ambitious art with imaginative technology." We missed a number of events due to an unwillingness to venture out in the storms, but tonight was a perfect night to explore some of the outdoor displays.

This project is an illumination of children's artwork being transformed into a rotating image of the earth.

 St. John's Cathedral was lit up as part of the festival.

As was the entrance to Kings College. The lights and colors continually changed.

This is our Detective Morse shot. Doesn't the setting look right for something mysterious? That is Anya silhouetted in the darkness.

Our favorite show of the night might have been the moon rising over our neighborhood. It was one of those times where the moon was full and bright yellow and the surrounding skyline gave the impression that it was twice its normal size. We didn't get a picture of that though, as capturing the effect is a little beyond our photography skills. I think Cambridge by night is even prettier than Cambridge by day.