I had barely mentioned this pumpkin-carving festival at the Denver Botanical Gardens when my wife told me to buy tickets. Our only option was a Thursday night. We drove up after work and ate supper at Noodles. The park was crowded with a lot of families with kids, but there were a couple other older couples beside us.
The ads for the event bragged on the “professional” artists who carved the pumpkins. But apart from five or six “statues,” there wasn’t much I couldn’t have done. What they lacked in artistry, they made up for in sheer volume — and a lot of lights.
We were there for perhaps an hour and saw everything there was to see. I’ll let the photos tell most of the rest of the story.
This glass sculpture sits out all the time — it was there when we visited to see the Christmas lights two years ago. I can’t help wondering what they do when it hails.
This was probably the most impressive of the statues.
This owl looks impressive, but it isn’t really carved so much as it’s just pumpkin slices fixed onto a frame and backlit.
