When I became older and more visual, I found less decorations more tasteful. Not only was I drawn to less, but also older. Over the years my camera would turn to the retro decorations, especially those faded and shopworn. The film elmusion has held up better than my memory...I can only guess where the photo above was taken.
Today's inflatables are not, in my opinion, camera worthy.
reprinted from previous years
When I was a kid I assumed there were two types of Christmas decorations. One was the tasteful, dignified exterior displays, the candles in the window, houses outlines with white lights type. Then there were the “for the kids” decorations. These were the blow-mold Santas lashed to the chimneys, the over abundance of flashing lights, the mixed stories of a colored blow-mold Nativity attended by blow-mold camels and snowmen. Today’s inflatable decorations leave me cold, and a deflated Santa on the front yard just looks sad and defeated.
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