Christmas in Greensboro, NC 2007

 

I spent this past Christmas with my sister, Marsi in Greensboro,NC.

You can read her blog at http://marsimumbles.blogspot.com/.

She'd mentioned to me quite a few times the neighborhood near her that decorates with "light balls." Now, these are not the store-bought version you might think of. These are homemade out of chicken wire, mostly in a ball shape but some in square or rectangular shape, around which one wraps strings of lights. These are then attached to phenomenally long extension cords and hoisted (God only knows how) into trees. These trees, mind you, are sometimes as high as 2 stories! When you have the participation of every single house on the same street, it's quite an impressive sight! I actually gasped out loud when we drove onto the street and saw what appeared to be hundreds of colored light balls/shapes seemingly suspended in mid-air (obviously you get this effect only when it's dark out). These pictures don't really do justice, but at least in the close-up you can tell what they do to get the effect.

If you go to Marsi' blog, you will read her recounting of Christmas day. It was quite funny. I had a great visit with her and it was the first Christmas we'd spent together in years. She's blessed with 2 sons and a daughter (all young adults) and it was a treat to get to see them also.