Thursday, December 31, 2020

Pre-pandemic Neighborhood Christmas Decorations--Yea, 2019


Why 2019 Christmas decorations? Partly because I had pix that I didn't get around to organizing. Another reason is my mental contrasting what I've seen this year to what I'd taken pix of last year. Seems this year I've seen fewer balloons (varieties and quantity).

Most of the pix were daytime, some at night. Join me in the short trek and look for the following items in the video:

  • Scene that includes dragon that seems to want to party beyond Halloween
  • Couple of scenes of penguins with snowmen
  • Christmas candy train
  • Christmas tree train ("Santa's Tree Farm")
  • Train with Santa, snowman, and penguin
  • Santa and reindeer, without Rudolph ("North Pole Stable", with reindeer names)
  • Couple of scenes with bipolar critters (polar bears, penguins)
  • Disco Santa ("Christmas Night Fever"), red-suited, not Angel-Flights suited.
  • At the slideshow end, a couple of lighted Christmas tree decorations, one actually a windmill with pyramid/conical base, another a lookalike.
    The time stamps showed 9 minutes difference between the pix. Because the final picture did not show a windmill mechanism, I concluded that I took the pictures at different places.

After viewing, re-viewing, editing, and preparing images for the slide show video, I noticed with amusement how all the penguins seem to be tot-sized. Thinking emperor penguin looks, but black and white rather than gray-fuzzy-feathered and white like the ones in "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins".

December 31, 2021: Visit "2021 Christmas Decorations Tour" (video, article), my 26-site tour of video clips. As I started organizing my project clips, I initially felt the pandemic pall colored my perception of the decorations. As I continued the process, my spirits lifted. In comparing my 2021 captures to my 2019 (pre-pandemic) captures, I notice more and varying images, not fewer. Hope you enjoy the ride and sights! May 2022 be more joyous than 2020 and 2021!

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