Colorful dirigibles anchored to the ground with web straps. One house here in town looks like the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade crash-landed in the front yard. It even has a 9-foot inflatable Grinch. Oh, and nothing celebrates the birth of Christendom’s Lord and Savior Jesus Christ like a wire polar bear on skis! Or a pointy, fur-trimmed hat in Denver Bronco logos and colors – yeah, that has “virgin birth in Bethlehem” written all over it!
Then there’s the modest home with absolutely nothing in the front yard except a hand-painted plywood cutout of the Nativity. Illuminated by a single floodlight. Oh, wait, no … that really does say Christmas.
The red bulb is actually our only decoration. I’m starting to come around to my husband’s way of thinking - maybe a single red bulb as Christmas decorations isn’t really the way to go.
A red bulb on the porch is the Christmas equivalent of the neighbor with a yellow bug light for independance day. Like can you shut off the light dude. It ruins the fireworks we came to see.
I haven’t been there this Christmas, but a year or two ago I did a project in the small Texas town of Comanche. On the main street there is a mexican restaurant called IIRC, El Sombrero. They have a large fiberglass teepee in a cactus garden in front of the restaurant. For Christmas, they placed a lighted plastic snowman in the cactus garden. My first thought on seeing this was that there was some definite cultural confusion going on here.