The Historic District

Every year, when Christmas was near, my folks would load us up in the car and we would go around and look at all the Christmas lights. Some houses had a single strand on a bush or star in the window, and some had winter wonderlands that would make Clark Grizwald look like chump change, but all of them had their own charm.

Let's have a virtual Christmas light tour of our houses and buildings! Post your lights and pass it on! If you didn't get to put them up this year put a picture of a year that you did!

Feliz Navidad!

James, nothing evokes Christmas like lights on a palm tree interesting growth pattern on the trunk, looks weaved. Just the way hey grow?

A few neighbors have mentioned the Corona beer TV ad which, by the way, is the longest-running Christmas commercial. If it brings a smile, then I consider my mission accomplished.

The palm is Sabal palmetto, which is native to the southeast US. Those are the leaf bases, which persist for a few years, then eventually fall off.