For several years now, every year on Chinese Lunar New Year, Oakland has hosted a Chinese Lantern Festival. Although I would call these glowing sculptures 🙂 for they are very large for flashlights. Several hundred glowing figurines were collected in Oakland's Domein Park (more than 800 according to official records). Some were funny, some were more or less gaunt 🙂 Besides the lanterns, the trees lit up with different colors looked cool.

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