On this Gratitude Monday before Christmas, I’m really
grateful for the people who go a little cuckoo in the holiday lights/yard
decoration department.
No, I’m not talking about the ones who spend tens of
thousands of dollars to have professional light-decorators come in or any of
that nonsense. I mean the folks who put up their grazing deer and inflated
snowmen in their yards and run strings of lights along the eaves of their
houses.
Well, okay—some of them are a
little OTT, but I think those represent year-on-year accumulation of the Grinch,
Mickey, Yoda and Muppets. And Christmas is definitely the season where you get
a free pass from the aesthetics police.
Here are some of my favorites from this year from here in
the Valley They Call Silicon.
You may recall my surprise at finding Target
selling a Christmas Pig, wondering who might find them worthy of purchase.
Well, I found out: someone in Palo Alto:
But if you look closely, you’ll discover that this pig
has already been partying pretty hard; he’s lost one of his ears. Oh, dear.
Then there’s the ever popular Christmas pink flamingo:
Not far from me, there are several houses on a street
that have their lights flashing in synch with a local FM radio station. I don’t
know that I find all that flash all that attractive, but one yard had a tree
that cycled through several color iterations, and I quite liked that:
Well, you get the drift.
On another of my walking routes, I got a kick out of this
snowman listing a bit. Maybe he was at the same party as the Palo Alto pig.
Snowflakes are apparently trending this year. I found
strings of them in both LED and regular lights
Well, you can see that there’s a lot to keep someone like
me amused, and I’m grateful for that.
I’m also grateful that—so far—no one’s called the cops on
me as I prowl their neighborhoods, taking photos like I’m casing the joint.
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Out the door this morning for the pig at Target. Thanks!
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