By the moonlight

Tonight, my family celebrated the Moon Festival!

We do this every year, in accordance with the Chinese calendar and keep with the tradition. It was a cold, blistery night, but I remember last year being far colder. The clouds covered the moon most of the time, but fortunately it did show its face.

We took out our stash of old and new candles, lanterns, lamps and such, lit them up and put them around the place in the back yard. Dad even scrounged up some old glass lamp shades from somewhere in the garage and used them for decoration too. Haha!

I even went around taking photos and videos with my phone!! Here are some of the pictures below:

Table with offerings, incense, tea, candles and lamps.

Taken by the light of a paper lantern. Sparklers and another lamp in background.

Pretty lights in the backyard.

We packed up when we had enough of the cold and ate moon cakes inside..by the heater. OM NOM NOM  xD

Love this time of the year!

- eenh