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Christmas in America is awesome! Christmas lights are like
none other. And they also have a couple of other pecularities!
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Christmas Lights
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Firstly there is Honor Heights in Muscogee. What a park
and what a display.
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Almost every plant in the park is a blaze of colour.
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Tree trunks are outlined and shrubs as filled with lights
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There are also little animations - here are a group of
kids sledding down a little slope. The middle child has
a dog on his sled and the dogs tail wags constantly.
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This bridge over a small pond shows the reflections beautifully.
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More reflections from the bridge
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Another little lake had all the bushes around lit and the
small trees had lights on every branch
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Sometimes you could easily imagine the azaleas in full
flower - the lights mimicing nature!
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This little stream ran from the top of the park down the
side of the hill. It was lit to resenble running water.
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This gives a bit of an overview of one section of the park.
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A pretty similar shot really!! The birds were animated.
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Many Christmas displays this year had a patriotic "area"
with a large flag seem ingly waving in the wind.
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A little animated tableau on the side of the lake. Many
of the animations had animals included - dogs chasing and
catching freesbies, rabbits hopping along a fence, squirrels
climbing a tree etc etc.
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mORE OF THE SAME!
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This was a static tableau of flowers among the trees.
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Trees and bushes lining the road through the park.
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From Honor Heights to Rheema Bible College. This was one
of the college entrances.
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The front lawn with a lovely nativity scene.
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The arrival of the Maji and the Crib
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The main college building was festooned with lights too!
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The lights here were very concentrated and what they lacked
in subtlety they make up for in quantity.
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The central pond has a lovely fountain and lots of ducks.
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This bridge over a small stream was constantly "moving"
- the lights moving and changing colours.
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Each tree in this driveway was coloured with differently
coloured lights.
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This gives you an idea of the "quantity" of the
lights!
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You have to see it to believe it!
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The bridge - it was an experience to walk through.
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The eagle was the college's football teams mascot.
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Again with the flag
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The flag was a very popular spot for photographs.
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Apart fro lights in/on bushes and trees, there were many
"shaped" displays - often these were animated
but not a cleverly as the ones at honor Heights
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More beauty and extravagance.
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What more can I say?
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Countless lights (well there were many millions of them).
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More and more of the same.
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It was impossible to imaging the time it must have taken
to put this display together.
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People come from all over the state to see this display
in Tulsa.
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And some people even came all the way from Australia to
see it.
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Eccentrically American
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Doesn't everyone need somewhere to carry their firearms?
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The BassPro shop "pedestrian crossing" - they
do sell a lot of fishing gear too!
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A whole, huge store devoted to camouflage gear, hunting,
fishing and camping.
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The decor suits the store theme!
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In Alpine, near the Grand Teton Mountains - advertising
for Bear Real Estate Agency.
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A while "airpark" community - all with parking
space for their planes, RVs, boats and cars
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Well, maybe a "pickup" as well.
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And we do like the plane to match the house colours!
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An individualised letterbox - very rare in the USA!
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It throws you a bit the first time you encounter a plane
on the road as you drive around.
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