Every square inch of this yard is filled with some sort of doo dad. I'm imagining that whoever did this put a lot of work into it, not to mention a significant financial investment.
A small snowman on the porch with a digital "Ho, Ho, Ho" message. Isn't that Santa's line?
There is different holiday music playing on each of the two street sides of the display.
To apporach the front steps, one must walk through this blow-up facade complete with "snow" blowing through the window areas.
Something tells me that this is NOT Martha Stewart's west coast place but it made me smile and Loree says that things that make you smile are good things ergo this is a good thing, right?
Notice the signs honoring the various branches of the armed forces. Nothing says patriotism quite like Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and lighted mint candies.
This house is also decorated to the hilt for Halloween. We'll visit next fall.
The creche (Nativity Scene) complete with a glowing angel and candle, and, of course, Frosty the Snowman. So is Tigger the inn keeper welcoming the shepherds?
Notice that there are also lights on the surface of the roof to greet people or aliens flying over the house.
This display reminds me of my own gardening style: See plants that I like, bring them home and squeeze them in wherever I can find an iota of space. I promise to edit, I promise to edit, I promise to edit. On the other hand, that's kind of how plants grow in nature, right? Anyway, I hope you got a giggle from this show. Can you imagine the wide eyes of a small child walking through this? Warms my cold, hard, black little heart - a little.
I CAN imagine a small child's jaw dropped in wonder and eyes wide. It's kind of like those brightly colored flocked trees. Kids love stuff like this. Evidently the big kids at this house do, too. Very camp. ha. My decorations are simple, few and natural for the most part, but, hey, different ways of doing things is what makes life and people interesting. Thanks for these photos and I definitely want to see this place decked out for All Hallows Eve!
ReplyDeleteIt's all good. Lots of work though. My decorations were nonexistent this year but my resolution for the new year is to decorate next Christmas.
DeleteHoly Moly! That house is something else. You sarcy thing. I don't know about getting a giggle from the display, but I definitely got a giggle from your post.
ReplyDeleteGiggling is good for you! The folks at this house sure do like to decorate! I wonder where they store all this stuff during the rest of the year.
DeleteYes I do have to admit to loving a display like this. It's so bad it's good. I just thank my lucky stars that it isn't across the street from me. I don't think I could take that.
ReplyDeleteIt'd be like waking up in Santa's workshop every morning. For mood lighting in the evening, one would simply open the blinds and voila. My favorite part was the Santa Head place mats used like stepping stones. The white silk poinsettias growing out of the ground were pretty special too!
DeleteWow! I wonder if they can see it from space?
ReplyDeleteThe Great Wall of China, this display, and my huge stomach can all be seen from space!
DeleteHaha...while the sensible part of me shudders...I have to agree...it makes me smile to think of the enthusiasm that must go into creating such an assemblage!
ReplyDeleteI know right? Sometimes the Joy and enthusiasm of something like this just breaks through all of our sensible notions!
DeleteWow! I am impressed! I like Santa and Rudolph wearing dark sunglasses! Lucky you! You don't even need to go to Zoolights! Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention Zoolights. We drove over last night but the parking was nearly nonexistent and when we passed the entrance, there were crowds of people waiting to get in. I suppose that's what happens on a dry, still, moonlit night but I didn't want to deal with the crowd and holding people up to take pictures so we'll try again tonight.
DeleteIt reminds me of the National Lampoon holiday episode where the lights blinded the neighbors when they came on. It DOES bring the kid in all of us bubbling to the surface, along with a laugh or two!
ReplyDeleteYou're right! I hadn't thought of that National Lampoon episode for a long time. Thanks for another chuckle!
DeleteWow, that's quite a display! Last year we sought out one that had been mentioned on the news and surprisingly it was in a "residents and guests only" subdivision. We drove in anyway, figuring that the fellow who put on the display was inviting us in by his actions. It was a rural subdivision with crummy roads and I was beginning to think we had taken a wrong turn when we saw the lights. Seemed out of place.
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are very good.
Fun story about your invasion of the subdivision!
DeleteThanks but these days, the camera does all of the work.
I like this one a lot. Much better than the one down the street from here, which features things laid out in a geometric pattern, everything evenly spaced, a rooftop display with Santa whipping his reindeer, etc.
ReplyDeleteThey used to compete with some people two blocks down, who put up one of those huge, wheezing snowmen that sputtered every time the wind blew.
The funny thing is that the whole display is removed right after Christmas. Don't people know the season starts on Christmas Day?
I greatly admire people who can do the straight line, geometric thing but I just can't figue out the restraint nor do I have the patience to do it. This collage of stuff was, um, interesting.
DeleteUnfortunately, for many people, Chrstmas begins right after Thanksgiving and Advent gets lost in the rush for the perfect single Currier and Ives day after which everything is swept into the garbage. Even our local classical station has started playing Christmas music during advent and the day after the 25th, anything even resembling holiday music is gone. Sad really.
I love it, but not enough to want it for my own home. It was all I could do to light one tree.
ReplyDeleteFun to look at but I agree with you and wouldn't want to be responsible for putting all of that away.
DeleteThis is so much fun. My neighborhood has a lot of lights, but the blow up snowglobe has taken the place of the Frosty blowmold far too often.
ReplyDeleteThere are some great neighborhoods around town which go over the top like this. Even in "Honk if you love Christmas" Texas this could win an Honorable Mention in the light display competition on the local news.
Your comment on my blog has me thinking. Might be a good thing, I haven't had to think much since I retired.
Glad you liked it! I asked the questions on your blog because I'm pondering them myself and am always curious about the experience of others doing this thing. I try not to think to much as it hurts my tiny brain.
DeleteI agree with Loree that it's so bad, it's good, as long as I didn't live within viewing distance. As a kid it would be a wonderland. I kept waiting for a Christmas themed drag queen to pop out. For that, I would have paid admission.
ReplyDeleteOMG! You're so right, that would be a PERFECT addition to this scene!
DeleteI definitely got a few giggles from this home. Somethingtells me you'll have to wait a while for the drag queen however.
ReplyDeleteRats! So you're not volunteering for the drag queen job?
DeleteAlthough I wouldn't do this to my own house, I have to give credit to the designer. To many people nothing screams Christmas more than a gaudy light display. When I was a kid, my dad used to load us into the station wagon every year and drive us around looking at the lights. A set up like this would have been top of the list.
ReplyDeleteWe too went on these station wagon light tours. Such fond memories of family spending time together. You're right, a dispaly like this would have been a must see!
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