Winter can be brutal and bleak in northern states-Christmas lights add an atmosphere of celebration to and otherwise dark and cold season. For that reason I like them. I wish we had more, but for now we have only candles in the windows and lights on the tree and railing inside.
Maybe next year I can convince my husband to put up lights on the exterior of the house. I can’t do it myself-he bought a Little Giant ladder and it’s too heavy for me to use!
I fondly remember the Christmas decorations everywhere on homes,businesses and the towns light poles in the 1960s and 1970s;then they began to slowly disappear under pressure from the ACLU and other humbugs.Cities also claimed it cost too much. Now locally, there are colorless white lights along most streets for the Winter Festival.Although the bright spots are do cities did have quite nice displays in the parks.
People can’t see our house because we are on a hill, and we are a ways from the road. However, you can just make out the top of our house from the road. I’ve thought of surprising my wife with a lit 5 foot star to place up there. The problem is that we only get two or three cars driving by per day, if that. And one of them is the mail man.