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On December 4, while walking Trixie, I noticed that there seemed to be more Christmas decorations than last year, so I decided to take a late-night drive through the community. While there were some Grinch streets, many streets were aglow in Christmas LEDs.
Now, if I were to drive down the road to Davidsonville, a local upscale community, the houses would be decorated elegantly, in white lights, with carefully situated spotlights highlighting live greenery and red ribbons. But I live in Woodland Beach, what once was a summer beach community on the South River. Woodland Beach is a very eclectic community. No two houses sitting next to each other are identical. Home prices range from $150,000 to well over a million. A two-bedroom cottage often sits beside a three-story, well-manicured colonial. It's just a very different, quirky little community.
The Christmas lights last night were no different. To be sure, there were more than a few tastefully decorated, I might even say elegantly decorated homes. Here in the Beach, though, styles seemed to lean toward any variety of Christmas yard art, often all in one postage-stamped size front yard. The yard art varied from the 60's & 70's style molded plastic Santas and Frostys and Rudolphs, all the way to the current style of air-blown nylon cloth decor. But to be sure, there was quite the variety. I kept a list to report back to the sassosphere:
- A half dozen Santas riding his Harley.
- At least as many Santas riding a John Deere tractor.
- 3 Santas riding ATVs, carrying reindeer in the back.
- One Santa landing his bi-plane (complete with moving propeller), with his 'runway' outlined in Christmas lights on the yard.
- Two Santas sailing yard-art sailboats.
- One Santa driving his yard-art motorboat. (It is an old beach community, after all.)
- One Santa driving his very real sailboat down at the dock, which was outlined in multi-colored lights.
- One Santa riding in his hot-air balloon, which was suspended from a large oak tree in the front yard.
- Dozens (I stopped counting) of Penguin elves in all possible sizes, one of whom was rowing a rowboat across the front yard, pulled by a reindeer.
- A Christmas dinosaur (a stegasaurus to be precise).
- A couple of Christmas pink flamingos (Minho-ho-hos?).
- Mickey Santas and Winnie-the-Pooh Santas.
- At least 3 Bart Simpson Santas.
- A Snoopy, attired in his pilot hat and goggles, flying his Christmas decorated dog house (no Red Baron, however).
- Lots of snowmen, toy soldiers, and 9-foot tall snowglobes. One snowglobe had lights flickering in the globe, with a kind of strobe-light thing going on.
It was quite the tacky Christmas decor extravaganza.
And oh, a Christmas Elmo and Cookie Monster are waiting out in my front yard for Julia to arrive on Christmas Eve.
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