The Big House O’ Inflatables is slowly ramping up the holiday spirit – it’s hard to tell here but there are “only 6” inflatables thus far. The trend in the neighborhood (oy, an inflatables trend) this year is for bigger, multiple-unit tableaux (such as Santa/sleigh/Rudolph or a snowperson family unit). Also, the BHOI is using lower-wattage bulbs than they have in the past, so there’s not as much light (thus cutting down on the garishness factor).
Mornings in Burbclavia are very tawdry – all the white-plastic deer and spiral Xmess trees look cheap and nasty, and the inflatables get turned off some time in the night (probably via timers at 11pm or so) and look disturbingly like corpses dressed in holiday colors. At night all the decor is (cumulatively) pretty if seen from a distance. One house up the block has an especially nice garland on their box-border hedge that makes me smile, because the stars are six-pointed double triangles. Must remember to point this out to David. 😉
If I do any illuminations this year, it’ll be luminarias (real ones) or nothing.
