Can you guess what this is?
It’s these lights taken on our way home from the land last Saturday night. It was taken with my pocket-sized Sony DSC-WX350, with a 20X zoom lens, and it was a picture of these lights, taken about a mile away.
Here’s another distance picture, from a different angle. In this one the yellow lights can be seen.
Why is Andy doing this? Because he wants to put a lit Christmas tree on the roof. Beate and Tim bought him the tree, and he bought some supposedly bright LED lights for our old string of incandescent Christmas lights. A few weeks ago we looked to see how the string would look from a distance, and the colors all blended to be one white light. So he grouped the colors and put aluminum reflectors behind them. The colors need to be separated more, but it looks hopeful.
Is he doing this ridiculously early? Ordinarily he would say yes, but in this case if he wants to put it on the roof he has to do it before the roof gets too icy. And he needs to do more experimenting to make sure his scheme will work. He won’t turn them on until a lot closer to Christmas.
Okay, then, is it a crazy idea? Oh, sure. But we’re all a bunch of nuts, and some nuttiness is more fun than others. (We will report on how the proposed modifications work.)
November 3, 2015
Coming weekend here will ring in the festive season starting with Diwali on the 11th inst. We will have lights up everywhere and they will stay on till January 1, 2016. Nuts? But of course!
And fun. At least you’re not going to climb up on a roof to install them.
When Andy told us about the idea of a x-mas tree on his roof, visible across the canyon for people coming back from town in the dark, he looked so excited that we had to make it happen!
Thank you so much for getting the tree for him. That was a big obstacle.
ohmygosh.
if this is nuttiness … then i think it’s perfect nuttiness.
the world needs more nuts like us…
especially beate and tim and you and andy. and rummy of course…
WAYYYY over there in that exotic nutty land of mother india.
seriously.
there is just something so lovely about lighting the darkness in the winter…
for travelers and such. how cheering it is.
xo
Agreed!! 🙂
I hope you like the extra exclamation point. Yay, celebrators! 🙂
Love the lights! Sincerely hope you are not tempted to turn them on weeks before Christmas. It makes the rest of us last minute people very nervous!
If it’s any consolation I didn’t decorate for Christmas at all last year. 🙂
At Christmas time in the UK the media always has stories about lavishly decorated houses festooned with lights, Father Christmases, toboggans and goodness knows what. And usually there are moans from neighbours who regard said houses as vulgar, embarrassing, ostentatious etc etc.
But I don’t think your neighbours would have cause to complain about a handful of coloured lights on the roof.
I’m guessing the lights will only be seen from about a mile away, so we don’t expect many complaints. We don’t have that many neighbors up there.
With the first picture, before I saw the picture of your windows with the lights, I thought you were going to tell us that the first picture had captured another green comet.
It does look mysterious, doesn’t it?
Sometimes it’s hard to see the difference between creative play and nuttiness. I’m charmed by those lights –and by the brother who uses his talents that way.
The only nuttiness is he wants to put it on the roof instead of in the window. I agree, though, it’s mostly creative play.
why not spend your “twilight years” doing whatever rocks your boat…go man go 🙂
We agree! I figure our main job now is to be happy so Kaitlin and Torben don’t have to worry about us.