There are lights... and there are lights.

This is the time of the year that you see Christmas lights everywhere.

Personally, those lights are a downer in shopping malls. The mercantile aspect of Christmas is so glaring obvious.

However, those same Christmas lights... when they are decorating homes and trees, that's something else.

They are there... for the sheer pleasure of its owners. There's nothing to buy. They are there, free, to be enjoyed.

With the foot of snow that we just had... those lights give a great festive look to our streets.

I like that!

Cheers from North Pole, Canada!