Quail Valley Garden Club

2014 Holiday Lighted Display Winners

Some beautiful Holiday Lights and Spirit are on display. Add the Quail Valley Proud December 19 sleigh ride for kids with the Mom's Club of Quail Valley . . . Drive the entire street of Robinson Road!

   We encourage you to enjoy our entire beautiful neighborhood . . . and don't forget Boca Court and Kiamesha . . .

 

The Quail Valley Garden Club has been encouraging Holiday Lighting for 38 years through out our community.  Chair Lynn Ellis stated, "This is always a hard decision as we had so many lovely displays. It's hard to narrow to three winners."

 

Our 2014 winners are:

 

Jack & Rose Ann Acosta 

2803 Glenn Lakes Ln.

 

 
     

Paul & Soleivi Shelton  

3115 Robinson Rd.            

 

Charlotte Ann Levingston-Johnson
3130 Bonnie Briar Dr.    

 

Night photography by Mitzi and Jaren Tolman.
Please click on the photos to enlarge them to truly appeciate the detail!

We were able to entice one of our winners to pose . . .

Soleivi Shelton posing with Chair Lynn Ellis . . .
Congratulations to all our winners.

Happy Holidays, Safe Travels, and Happy New Year
from the Quail Valley Garden Club!

 

2013 Holiday Lights Winners

Music, dancing lights, faith and joyous expressions of the holidays.
Whether it’s an entire neighborhood showing off Christmas Cards tied together by lights, a dial-your-car radio to wonderful Christmas music all light synchronized and dancing, or the many emotions of the holidays, you find neighbors sharing the holidays in Quail Valley. Lynn Ellis' Committee has a compressed schedule during a busy time of the year! They hunt to find different winners each year!

2013 Winner Hope Category

Alan & Jennifer Burkhalter, 3834 West Pebble Beach

Bathed in lights that bring hope for the future,
there is warmth and welcome.

Please click on any image to enlarge it.

 

 

2013 Joy Category Winner

Jessica & Ed Ransom, 2906 Robinson Road
Still photographs do not do justice to this display. Drive by, tune your radio to 99.9FM.
Watch the lights dance to a wonderful selection of Christmas Music.

Lights change color,
go dark, change patterns . . .
to the music which ranges from light and fun to classical with great selections inbetween.

I hadn't heard
All I Want For Christmas Is
My Two Front Teeth
in years!

 

2013 Faith Category Winner

Frankie & Curtis Hyman, 3015 Robinson Road

Angels with horns
hark the season
to the warm glow
of the candles in the windows.

Please click on photos
to see the wonderful detail
of the candles!

 

 

2013 Honorable Mentions . . .

Honorable Mention Hope
Richard & Sharon Allen, 3711 West Valley

Clever small details and interesting techniques with lighting . . .
like the Frosty the Snowman light

create interest . . . and where did they buy that????

Very inviting to the courtyard entry!

 

 

Honorable Mention Joy
Isaac & Edith Hunt, 2503 Bermuda Dunes

Clever ground patterns of lighting with a collection
that evolves over the years.

Check out how there is snow

under a corner tree near Cartwright when you drive by!

 

 

Honorable Mention Faith

Gregory & Cheryl Herring, 3811 West Creek Club

From Bethlehem

to Texas

and all over the world . . .

a gift of a child who changed history

and wishes for peace on earth.

 

 

To visit the Kiamesha/Boca Court neighbors lighting project,
if you are unfamiliar with the area "google in" 3700 Kiamesha, 77459 for a map

 

Happy Holidays to All
from the Quail Valley Garden Club
in Missouri City, Texas

 

 

 

The Holiday Lights Elves
who select the winners. . .

 

 

 

And from Janice and John Scanlan
who photograph the night lights
and Janice who writes and creates the website

Happy New Year!

 

People behind the 2012 lights . . .

 

 

Just a few of the Quail Valley residents who make the holiday brighter . . .and were recognized by the Quail Valley Garden Club 2012.

 

The Shoemake Family, 3202 Robinson Road

The Romero Family, 2714 Oakmont

The Gegen Family, 3110 Robinson Road with QVGC Selection Chair Lynn Ellis (on right)

Valerie Langdon (left), 3130 Millbrook with Selection Chair Lynn Ellis

The Rothe Family, 3514 Golden Tee Lane

Joyce Sisti (right), 3615 Elms Court with Lynn Ellis of QVGC

Photographs by John Ellis.

 

2012 Holiday Lighting Winners

 

Good grief, Charlie Brown, look at all the lights!

The Quail Valley Garden Club Wishes you a Happy Holiday and hope you enjoy this thumbnail of the festive displays in Quail Valley.

Lynn Ellis and her committee, as always, had a difficult choice as you'll see if you take some family time to drive around and experience the season without rushing!

See how your friends and neighbors express Hope, Joy and Faith with their creativity!

Hope Category are those displays that tie to past traditions and light the way to the future.

Hope Winners Robert & Joyce Sisti of 3615 Elms Court (off Hampton)

The dramatic lights still provide a warm welcome to the Sisti's home.

 

Joy Category are those displays that see the joy of the season through the eyes of a child--with fun and joy . . .

 

Joy Winners Peter & Tracie Rothe, 3514 Golden Tee Lane (off Hampton)

 There's fun from every angle in the Rothe's display.

 

Faith Category depicts the spritual basis for the season.

Faith Winners Fred & Leslie Gegen of 3110 Robinson Road

 

The legend of the Candy Cane dates to 17th Century England.

 

The candy was a double treat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there are the Little Drummer Boys as well.

Honorable Mentions

 

Hope Honorable Mention Oscar & Maria Romero, 2714 Oakmont 

 

Joy Honorable Mention Valerie Langdon, 3130 Millbrook

 

 

Faith Honorable Mention James & Judy Shoemake, 3202 Robinson Road

And the neighbors at Boca Court and Kiamesha always have a wonderful display. You can visit Santa until Dec 23rd! 

Download Driving directions

  Driving directions from Hampton/Murphy Road area:

Take Hampton from Murphy Road (going east)

Turn right on Elms Court cul de sac

3615 Elms Court

U-turn back to Hampton, Turn right

Turn right on Golden Tee Court cul de sac

3514 Golden Tee Court

U-turn back to Hampton, Turn right

Take Hampton east to East Creek Club, Turn right

Go to Millbrook, Turn left

3130 Millbrook

U-turn back to East Creek Club, Turn right

Wind around East Creek Club past Hampton

Turn Left on Robindale, Turn right on Robinson Road

3110 Robinson Road

Continue on Robinson Road to

3202 Robinson Road

U-turn and go back to where you can turn right on Robinson Road

Take Robinson Road to El Dorado, turn right

Turn left on La Quinta

Go past City Centre at Quail Valley and

Turn right at Quail Valley Patio Homes on Quail Valley Road

Go to Oakmont Lane, turn left

2714 Oakmont Lane

U-turn, turn right on Quail Valley Road and go back to La Quinta, turn right to go to Cartwright

Please click on any image to enlarge it.

Happy Holidays from the Quail Valley Garden Club

Since 1972, growing better community!

We welcome all interested in gardening!

Our next program is open to the public!

 

   Night photography by Janice Scanlan and co-pilot John Scanlan

 

 

 

 

 

2011 Holiday Lighting Winners

2012 Judging Dec 10, 11, and 12. Turn on your displays those evenings!

The Quail Valley Garden Club Committee led by Jackie Walker consisted of six people who reviewed and four members who selected from those homes with lights on between December 12 and 15th as announced in the Quail Valley Newsletter to every resident as well as in the Valley View News and on the front page of our website. As always this is a tough job that is compressed into a very busy time of the year!

To really enjoy the homes we suggest you drive-by . . . as well as enjoy displays that are impossible to capture in one photo such as the neighborhood display on Boca Court that grew out to Kiamesha. 

 

 

Hope First-place Winner:
3719 Panarama, James & Denise Duncan

Faith First-place Winner:
3923 Kiamesha, Ramond & Deborah Simpson

Joy First-Place Winner:
2707 Glenn Lakes, Jim & Kathleen Bryant

Hope Honorable Mention
3238 Hunterwood, Emmanuel & Violette Pascal

Hope Honorable Mention:
2611 Robinson Court, Linda Fisher

Faith Honorable Mention:
3523 Covey Trail: Joyce Funderburk

Faith Honorable Mention:
3119 Silver Springs, James & Kathy Stewart

Joy Honorable Mention:
2718 Bermuda Dunes, Robert & Barbara Dougherty

Joy Honorable Mention:
2907 Skyline Court, Jimmie & Patsy Britt

The Funderburk's at 3523 Covey Trail is very complex . . .here's a full picture.

The committee also loved
Donna & Charles Adaway's display at 3623 West Creek Club.
It was a 2008 Honorable Mention, but here's a picture:

Happy Holidays from the
Quail Valley Garden Club!
since 1972, growing better community

  Night photography by Janice Scanlan and helper John Scanlan