Very dark, so what better time to look at Christmas lights, especially what with snow on the ground?
We drive down Monument Avenue and see trees dripping with colored tube lights, clouds of white lights hovering in the porticos, and tentacles of color oozing up the Doric columns. Not much in the way of gaudy, vulgar excess because this is not that kind of street. The only really bizarre display is at St. Mary's Hospital, sort of a "clear cut Christmas." The fringe of trees that shades the hospital from the street is decorated, after a fashion: each trunk is wound with strings of white lights up to about the height of a stepladder. (Ya think?) In the dark, the overall effect is of a lot of brightly lit stumps, the enchanted forest after the loggers have come through.
141 words | December 20, 2004 09:44 PM | Real true story