Photo TR: My Front Yard

[Angry_Gumball]

Well, that time of year again to run up the energy bill and light up the street with an overdose of lights. This time around, we ventured into some custom work such as the wood cut outs (drawn freehand, hand painted and cut) and our giant candy cane posts. (PVC Pipe and red super wide electrical tape). It came out nice in my opinion as I'm also still learning exposures on my camera to get that picture 'just right.' Well, I'm having difficulty typing as my hands are cold, so here's the pictures. Enjoy! BTW, We blew about 4 fuses to get this right.

And lastly, a deer chilling on the bush. Thanks for viewing, comments appreciated as Christmas lights are a form of art to me.

Our candycane post thingamajig

Side House

Overview of our house, taken from the top of our friend's car

Another view, with inflatable ornaments in the tree (in which 4 flew off due to heavy winds last night. Those in Bay Area know how bad these winds were)

Light post at our driveway with a "Let It Snow" sign hanging over. Makes a nice entry.

Wood Gingerbread train, all hand made.

[printersdevil78]

Love that train! Great job!

 

The multi-color versus white lights discussion is a hot topic of debate in the "letters to the editor" section of my local paper each December. It's kind of a moot point, really. My co-worker and I were just discussing today how everyone around here seems to use blue lights. Because, you know, that just screams "Christmas."

 

My dad decided not to put up lights this year (and I never do, apartment living and whatnot), but in past years he's tried to incorporate some sort of "theme"--which none of the rest of us really ever understood. Basically all the bushes got colored lights. Then white icicle lights hung from the porch. Then rows of evenly spaced blue lights covered the ground under the bushes.

 

The white lights, he said, were supposed to represent snow. The blue lights were water. Why the multi-colored bushes were floating on the blue light "water" is anyone's guess. But somehow it made sense to him.

[spaceace12]

When it comes to yards I thought I had it bad with just a bush and then a parking lot out front. Looks good for what space you have. I usually put lights on the gutters and lights on the bushes, but since I hadn't had time to put them out, probably won't.

[Team Thriller]

You must have lots of patience. I always just throw a bunch of lights down on the lawn and then turn them on.

 

I'm pathetic...I know

 

Great job on the lawn by the way! Looks awesome!!!

[moinab]

^^^Seriously? People write letters to the editor over the color of lights?

 

Maybe all the blue lights are for Hanukkah.

[ebl]

Here in Southern California, anything goes. Some people even put lights on their cars.

 

Eric