It’s that special time of year when everyone puts up their Christmas lights. Whether it be rain or shine or power shortage or recession, dammit those lights are going up. And they seem to be going up earlier and earlier every year. I found a house with the lights up and on before Thanksgiving. And it is absolutely amazing to see just how many lights and other decorations a household is willing to tolerate.
They end up looking really stupid in the daytime.
But I found something that made me smile today. It was early and I was out. I saw houses and their Christmas lights. It was dark enough to see that the lights were on but too bright for them to look anything but stupid. And few people had turned them off. It was just too early. So I watched as the morning got brighter and all the lights faded in my eyes.