More than a million lights will decorate trees and landscapes in Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, just west of Winston-Salem. The festival, now in its seventh year, features more than three miles of magnificent displays.
Lights appear to move through the wizardry of animation technology.
The lights bounce, skip, leap, shoot through the air and cross right over your car as you drive through the 66 colored light displays. Although Christmas is the theme for Tanglewood's light show, the sports offered at the park throughout the year, as well as historic displays depicting the park's history, can be seen in moving form. It means the kind of action seen in a game of tennis when the ball volleys across the net to a receiving player dressed in holiday attire. And since Tanglewood has three public golf courses, which for many years have played a prominent part in this former home and estate of William Neal Reynolds, brother of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds, it's fun to see a player take position, tee off and then watch the ball as it travels toward its destination. Riding horseback through the park's extensive bridle trails has been a favorite activity for years, and though you can't hear these fancifully lighted horses whinny, you can see a technologically artistic interpretation of trotting horses.