Floating Lanterns at Green Lake

Yesterday evening we went to see the lantern floating ceremony for "From Hiroshima To Hope". It is organized every year in remembrance of the victims of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war and violence, on NW Shore of Green Lake.
Everybody can make his/her own lantern with the materials which are provided. We reached at around 9 p.m. By then the prayer ceremony was almost over and people were getting ready to float the lanterns. Within half an hour hundreds of beautifully decorated lanterns were floating serenely in the lake. It made a truly amazing sight.If you live in Seattle area do make it a point to attend this beautiful and peaceful event next time. These are some of the pictures we took of the event.

(The crowd near the bathhouse theater getting ready to lower the lanterns down onto the lake.)

(A few kids went into the water and helped everybody float their lanterns on the lake.)

(Floating lanterns on Green Lake.)

(The wind blew the lanterns onto the shore where they gathered under trees.)