Happy New Year!

Just one more post of Christmas lights.  No idea what the family's name is but it was referred to in town as 'The Griswold House'.  Not sure if you could see this from space but it really was a beautiful sight to behold!

I hope everyone had a nice and peaceful holiday season!  Here's hoping that 2018 will be a better year.

Christmas' Last Gasp & Happy New Year!

The last of the Christmas pics.  I just love how the outside lights look in the rain.  Since I was planning on taking everything down between Christmas and New Years, I had to take the opportunity to shoot them.

These two were through the kitchen window.

We had the kids over for Christmas Day and we did munchies and deli sandwiches.  I also baked up some Italian knot cookies and I was dying to try these brownie trees.  They came out pretty good!

I should've taken a pic of the table with all the food on it but I was so busy putting everything out and everyone was digging in so all I got was a pre-visit picture of the Christmas crackers, cards and scratch tickets.  No one but me ever heard of crackers before, but they seemed to enjoy them, and we all wore our paper crowns the rest of the day.

Later that night, I went back outside to take a couple of pics of my neighbour's laser lights up in the trees.

This is with the brightness boosted quite a bit, as it was roughly 8:00 pm when I took them.

Another house down the street had them as well.

Couple more pics of the kitchen window.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe New Years Eve!  I always attempt to stay up for the ball dropping in New York but the past couple of years we were well on our way to sleepydreamland by 11 pm.  Gone are the days of all night Dead shows at the Oakland Coliseum! 

Happy New Year!

Sights & Lights

In my neverending quest to document Christmas in this area, I went out shooting again one Sunday morning. I had to capture this incredibly creepy and Terminator-like Santa at the local auto parts store.  If you think it looks weird now, you should see it at night.

Here is Epic Halloween House done up epically for Christmas.

Deflated Santa says, 'A little help?!'

And speaking of Santa, I spotted this jaunty fellow out front of Antique Affair.

Later that day, I went back out after sunset to capture the lights.  Do click on this picture to make it bigger. It's the rotary near my house.  Very pretty.

 The bandstand at the park.

It was only about 6:00 pm but there were a lot of weird, hinky people out and about and I did not feel safe lingering around and shooting pictures.  So my shots are not up to the standards I expect for myself.

I did attempt to shoot this scene across the way from Main Street, on Bourne Pond, but without a tripod, shaking and blurriness was unavoidable.  Again, some weirdo pulled up right behind my car and I hurried to get back in and lock my door.  

The Mezza Luna restaurant tree, which was behind me as I was shooting the pond reflection.

The main rotary near the Bridge.

Here is Epic Halloween and Christmas House lit up.

Pizza's not that good but I like the deer.

This is a house down the street from me.

Purty!

And one around the corner.  They do it up big time every year.

I am, unfortunately, running out of time to finish capturing the sights, lights and decorations of the season!