Happy Holidays everyone ! (xmas lights pics?)

[andrewinorlando]

Beautiful, just beautiful everyone. Back in my old Italian neighborhood in New Yawk, we used to kidnap baby Jesus from the nativity scenes and hold him for ransom. Such little hoods we were.....ah, the good old days.

 

[wishwash]

Decorations

I love all of the pictures. There are some areas around here that are quite "creative". When you go out into the far hollows here in the mountains, you can find junk cars decorated, trash cans, fences, birdbaths, toolsheds and a host of other things. Kind of cool actually. To each his own, I suppose.

 

[gansky1]

I chucked the artificial tree last year - 8 years was enough for one tree. It was a pretty one though, 7 ft. tall with 1300 lights - it was like a space heater in the living room.

Here is our real fir for '06. I took this as we finished the lights, before decorating. The tree-topper is a vintage 50's flashing "star" - very fun!

 

[retroguy]

What great pics everyone!

I love those candoliers, and Greg, that star ROCKS!

 

[exploder321]

Nifty Star

I thought the decorated car busniess was only here..LoL

 

[kenmore58]

Here's one more of the tree. Haven't decorated yet. Decided to use just bubble lights.

Ron

 

[sikiguya]

I'll show you mine since you showed me yours......

We switched to all LED on the tree this year and it makes a HUGE difference. I used to use 500+ lights on about 8 to 10 strings. This time it's 4 strings of 50 and that's it!

My pic is too big for the site and I have no idea how to resize it so I put it on my photo blog, sorry!

http://keungfamilyfun.blogspot.com/

 

[gregm]

pic 1

Here is a pic from the outside with flash ...

 

[gregm]

pic 2

Here is another with no flash of primarily the front porch.

 

[exploder321]

Heather,
Usualy what i do is save them to my desktop, right click on the picture and scroll down to the "Send To" option..I hit send to mail reciepent, check yes to the resize box and when the otulook express window pops up, i click and drag the picture back to the desk top. I then re-save it as the smaller size and voila!

I am sure there are better ways to do this, but this is what i was taught..

Nice tree!

 

[48bencix]

Here's our tree

This is our tree this year.

Thanks for the pictures everyone.

Martin

 

[glamwales]

HO HO HO Merry christmas all from S Wales

Tree 1

 

[glamwales]

tree 2

we had fun getting this in !

 

[glamwales]

3000 bulbs !!!

I dont pay the electric bill tho ! sorry its a little blurry

 

[hoover1060]

how beautiful all these pics are!

My favorite "non religious" part of Christmas has always been the lights and decorations. Always so pretty!
Two weeks ago we had a foot of snow, and with the decorations out it looked awesome!
Thanks for sharing all the pics!

 

[perc-o-prince]

I love 'em all!!

Thanks , everyone, for sharing your pics!! I have seen Greg M's lights when I last visited and they look even better(if that's possible) when you see them while standing in the front yard. The glow is so warm and nostalgic!

Ron...Oh Ron. It couldn't get gayer EVEN if it were at my house. LOL!!! Looks fantastic.

Gansky1...I love the tree topper. I would love to find something like that.

Glamwales...What an elegant home. Is it an older house or is it new? I love the fireplace!!!

Rich

 

[tlee618]

Thanks everyone so very much for sharing the wonderful pictures. I have really enjoyed them all. There is just something so warm and relaxing about all the lights. Hope to learn how to post pictures one day soon as well.

 

[polkanut]

Calling Glamwales...

What scent is the Yankee candle sitting on the hearth? I will only buy Yankee's because they are the only one's with scent enough for the whole house.

 

[tulsaguy42]

my lights were not on when I took the picture :=(

here's my house during a recent snow. I also have candoliers on every window. They look wonderful at night.

 

[petek]

Love seeing everyone elses decorations. It's nice to see snow down there in OK hahaha.. how come we don't have any here.

Glamwales: is that an LCD tv under the tree? With my name on it?

Tulsaguy ; that is a beautiful stonework on your house. There are a couple of houses in this neighborhood somewhat similar and they were built sometime in the late 40's or early 50's is that about the age of your house? There's another one as well that looks to be built of logs from the same era but they aren't real logs