Holiday Lights - Gardening Book
Holiday Lights
by David Seidman
ISBN 1580175082
9
1/2 X 9 1/2
Paperback
Every December, it's
harder and harder to keep up with the Clauses. Consider the Wills home
in Mendota Falls, Minnesota, where more than 150 candy canes light up
the exterior of the house. Or Bull Run Park in Centerville, Virginia,
which features 200 over-the-top holiday lights displays stretching over
two miles. And down in Marble Falls, Texas, just about every house in
town is a holiday lights extravaganza (including the place with a twirling
lariat that spells out 'MERRY TEXMAS Y'ALL') Okay, so maybe some holiday
light shows get a little out of hand, but you have to appreciate the time,
work, and effort (not to mention expense) that goes into installing 600,000
bulbs over a 50,000-square-foot property (as in the case of the Clot family
of Pinecrest, Florida). And don't forget the imagination and technical
wizardry of homeowners who have created a school of dancing fish wearing
Santa hats, or a garden of computer-controlled poinsettias that appear
to grow out of the ground and blossom in glorious color, or illuminated
toy trains that run on 700 feet of track.
HOLIDAY LIGHTS! is a high-wattage celebration of the wildest and most wonderful examples of a modern tradition. The 250 full-color photographs are spectacular, but don't stop at the pictures. The accompanying essays reveal the titanic amount of hard work and dedication required to install these displays.
