We've been traveling all over the area in the past few weeks, and looking at Christmas lights has become the source of much entertainment. Near Fair Hill, Maryland, the decorations at one house were absolutely over the top; in protest, I'm sure, the next-door neighbors put up only a single strand of lights spelling out "MEH." One family near Ambler, Montgomery County, crammed its entire large front yard full of lights, displays, candy canes, gingerbread houses, inflatables, absolutely dozens of them. Apparently the display is so well known that it attracts tourists, because two portable toilets had also been installed in the yard.
Closer to home, along the Route 1 bypass south of the Toughkenamon exit, a family whose house backs up to the bypass erected a giant blow-up Santa with its arms raised, apparently offering a benediction to the motorists. At a house along Route 926 green lights snaked up the branches of a tree, making it look like a huge Gumby. And a family in the Willowdale Crossing development turned its shrubbery into the semblance of candy canes, with swirls of parallel red and white lights. Such creativity! Such electric bills!
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