[Bear_in_RoseBear]

It would usually snow by Halloween up in Northern Michigan; let me tell you, trick-or-treating was no fun when it was cold enough to snow.

Christmastime is odd here in Texas too, but the light displays can really be something. Since there's no snow here, people put Christmas lights all through their yards, along the edges of lawns, etc. The wife and I love to go driving through some of the neighborhoods just to look at the lights.

Now I'm really going to bed, good night!

[ecurbh]

Well it looks like everyone went to bed already. I was working on my website tonight, and now have a page of my own screencaps from the trailer. Check it out! And just to tide you over, here is one for the guys. (There's a couple good ones of Arwen there too)

[SuziQ]

Since there's no snow here, people put Christmas lights all through their yards, along the edges of lawns, etc. The wife and I love to go driving through some of the neighborhoods just to look at the lights.

Here in MA people, are starting to do huge lawn displays at Christmas. One of our traditions is to take the kids on a drive through town on Christmas night. We love going by houses and laughing at the garish displays. We yell out 'tacky alert' (in our closed car, of course)when we see a particularly egregious one.

A few years ago, a man in town had about 100 different lighted displays in his yard, covering all the bases. He had a Creche, snowmen, Santa, Rudolph and all the reindeer, angels, the Peanuts characters, etc., not to mention the lights hanging from his house and several trees in the yard. When you drove near his street, you thought something was on fire because of the glow from the lights. Two weeks before Christmas we had a HUGE snowstorm that dumped about a foot and a half of snow. That man shoveled almost all of that snow out of his yard over the next week, and his yard looked like it had just gotten a dusting of snow!