Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Letting Their Lights Shine

Here are my favorite or most strange lights from the Christmas season. They are all different, and each one is unique in their own way! This first one is a deer beside a cross that has a halo.

Here are our old buddies, the M&M's guys. Don't know what they have to do with Christmas, except  that we eat a lot more of them then.

The next two pictures show a house with a Santa hot air balloon taking a couple penguins for a ride.


Dinosaur. I don't have a clue.

Para sailing nerd? Your guess is as good as mine. But cute.

I just loved the look of this house.

This house draped strands of lights over their railing, such a pretty look!

And finally, the last three are one spectacular house. WOW, it may have been my favorite. I will show you in the order that we saw it as we were driving up to it.



“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
Matthew 5

21 comments:

Linda said...

I miss the lights. When we used to go skiing in Colorado AFTER Christmas - I noticed the towns leave their lights up al winter! I love that! It doesn't make sense to do that here in Texas since it was 70 degrees today and winter isn't white but brown here!

Linda said...

What a fun post, Ginny, I love all the lights! :)

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

Christmas seems an eternity away now but the lights are lovely in your shots.

Nancy Chan said...

My favourite is the house with the lights. The lights are colourful and beautiful.

Optimistic Existentialist said...

I love all of these. They are all so unique!! I love driving around each December and looking at the Christmas lights :)

Tanya Breese said...

wow, that last house is beautiful! must have taken a lot of work to put up then put down! i like the christmas dino, even though i don't know what he has to do with the season, but he's cute!

Tamago said...

Such pretty pictures. I love the Santa hot air ballon and penguins. The penguins are adorable! And the house in the last three photos...wow, really spectacular!

MadSnapper said...

you did a great job on the night shots.. 8 and 9 are my favorites, i like the cross to.. we don't go out at night so i have zero light shots.

Shug said...

My goal each day is to let my light shine in a way that others can see God through me. all of these homes seemed to really be enjoying the Christmas Season...good for them. I so enjoy seeing all the Christmas lights....Even though this is something we look forward to each year....I wouldn't mind if we had lights up all year round... guess it's the kid in me.
hugs to ya

Lisa @ Two Bears Farm said...

I'm so impressed by the efforts some people go to with their holiday lights. Pretty amazing.

Ann Thompson said...

WOW, that last one is amazing. I can't imagine how much work went in to doing that.

Rose said...

I have never seen such odd Christmas decorations before! Oh, how I would love to know the story behind them. Specially the dinosaur.

Ruth Hiebert said...

Lots of colourful lights. I like looking at them,but think it is too much work to put up so many lights.

DeniseinVA said...

The lights are so pretty and the one makes a lovely header photo. Those people at the end go all out don't they? A lovely series of photos Ginny, thanks for sharing them.

Reanaclaire said...

Very fascinating lightings, Ginny... they really make an effort to beautify and decorate up the place, right....

Anonymous said...

Hi Ginny, Hands down - that beautiful Cross and that extra-chubby Santa Claus. Fun post. Have a lovely day tomorrow!

EG CameraGirl said...

Lots of variety here! I do love the colours, which brighten up the darkest time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Dee said...

Oh, I miss all the beautiful Christmas lights already. I live in Pennsylvania and there are still a few decorated houses that I'm able to admire, but not many. Thanks for sharing the verse, I jotted it down in my little notebook so that I'd remember it. Blessings to you... :)

George said...

Wow! The house in your last pictures is amazing. I wonder what their electric bill is like?

Ruth Kelly said...

You have a talent for taking night photos. great job!

Cranberry Morning said...

I always love Christmas lights. I miss them when January is here.

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