Holiday lighting

Around South Miami, there are alot of people who like to decorate their houses for Christmas/Chanauka/Kwanza/Etcetera. Some of these lights are tastefully done, you see many people who wrap up the palms which I personally think is awesome.

Some people however, look like their houses were vomited upon by the Christmas fairy. And I think they do it on purpose. I have a friend who's family cannot stand their neighbors across the street. So every year they put their lights on badly, clash the colors and put obnoxious things in the windows.

I truly home the below two houses (which BTW, I couln't capture the whole house in all their festive glories, so these pics have to do)

This house also has a ton of lights in the trees, the bushes and all over the house. They have more stuff along the side, but it didn't all come out.



And this is one my roommate showed me. He laughs at the fact that there are twelve inflatable things in the yard and on the roof. We also were perplexed because they have a spotlight of snowflakes falling, but instead of falling down, they were falling up. Strange.

And normally I hate the inflatable santas because I think seeing them deflated during the day is disturbing. And call me elitist, I also think they are ugly. However, this is an exception because it is, in fact, awesome:

More Christmas Spirit

Another thing you can do down here but not up north - you can plant pointsettias in the ground and they will live through the holiday season! If you tried this up north, first you wouldn't be able to break ground because the dirt would be frozen and if you could plant them, they wouldn't last one freeze. The joys of living in the South and South Florida - pointsettias all year round:

Christmas in Miami

Here are some more photos from Xmas displays. These were taken at Cocowalk (one of the mammoth tree and another of a beautiful snowflake). I've got more coming:

Xmas in Miami

Holiday cheer from the lawns of Miami:

Getting into the Season

Being from the North, it's always is strange to me to see Christmas lights on palm trees and other holiday creations in South Florida. But I guess to the people of this area, it's quite normal. I'm going to start documenting all the lights and displays I come across since some of them are spectacular. I can't wait until South Miami Avenue gets their displays going. They are great! But I saw this one off of Coral Way this evening. I was driving by so it may not be as clear as I wanted but you get the idea: