My Kind Of Christmas Decorations

[+ Cash4Trash]

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/230275_493340080706290_1850357699_n.jpeg

[tyro]

HELLZ YEAH!

Thanks for posting.

T

[Diverdan]

Fun.... love to see that in my neighborhood !!!!

[bigvalboy]

Now that took guts....I don't care where you live. lol lol

[JoeBlow]

"Oh cum, all ye faithful!"

[tyro]

NICELY DONE, JoeBlow!

T

[Jaker27]

Umm pretty gutzy or maybe just a giant fuck you to the neighbors. Jizz the season.

 

Check this house out. She lost her husband recently and it's kind of memorial. I think it's neat.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/massive-christmas-light-display-draws-crowds-annoys-neighbors-194409780.html

[tyro]

Thanks for posting. This display is phenomenal, and the story behind it is touching. If she shuts it off at 11 PM every night, I don't think the neighbors have too much grounds for complaint.

T

[Steven_Draker]

Check this house out. She lost her husband recently and it's kind of memorial. I think it's neat.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/massive-christmas-light-display-draws-crowds-annoys-neighbors-194409780.html

 

This is excellent! I love the story. What is "too much, too bright and too loud" for some is just amazing for others.

 

Long vive la différence !

[Phil_musc]

Nice story, I even kinda like the display. Thank God I don't live near her though. I feel for the neighbor who said it was more appropriate for Las Vegas. What about the right to quiet enjoyment of one's home?

[Steven_Draker]

.......

 

"But it's Christmas, you know ... and we don't do this all the time"

 

[Jaker27]

.......

I'm almost tempted to go see it. I'd love to see it in person. Especially, with the moving story behind it. Mostly i just love Xmas displays. Always have and always will. The bigger and the tackier then the better in my book.

[Xander]

I'm visiting family in Phoenix right now ... so many lit up cacti and palm trees. Its amazing -- I am so glad to be back on the west coast.

[+ honcho]

The curmudgeonly part of me can't resist pointing out that there are a few miles between Phoenix and the ocean

and many people would consider it to be more part of "The Southwest".

 

I grew up in Albuquerque, and back then (50's and 60's) the custom was to put small candles in paper bags

weighted with sand around the sidewalks and sometimes on the roof, which I think were called "Luminarias".

(lighting the way for the Christ-child to come visit).

 

Is this done in Phoenix (or even ABQ) anymore?

 

Happy holidays in any case

 

[and for the record *all* of my best ancestors are Jewish]

[Xander]

I haven't seen anything like that (yet) ... I remember seeing it a bunch when I grew up in California, though!

[gp0560]

The curmudgeonly part of me can't resist pointing out that there are a few miles between Phoenix and the ocean

and many people would consider it to be more part of "The Southwest".

 

I grew up in Albuquerque, and back then (50's and 60's) the custom was to put small candles in paper bags

weighted with sand around the sidewalks and sometimes on the roof, which I think were called "Luminarias".

(lighting the way for the Christ-child to come visit).

 

Is this done in Phoenix (or even ABQ) anymore?

 

Happy holidays in any case

 

[and for the record *all* of my best ancestors are Jewish]

 

Yes, Honcho, luminaria are alive and well, in of all places, a nice middle-class, probably Waspish, probably Democratic neighborhood in good old used-to-be-staid Grand Rapids. Blocks and blocks of them, all perfectly aligned, on both sides of the street. Magical, especially coming back from church late at night on Christmas Eve.

[+ azdr0710]

yes, luminaria displays are still very popular...

 

http://southwestdesertlover.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/noche-las-luminarias/

 

but many are now plastic bags strung together with an electric cord and with electric nightlights inside each "bag"....bah humbug.....

[+ honcho]

Wow ... thanks for the news about GR, gp, and lovely images, azdr !