Light it up

There's a lot of enjoyment to drive down a darkened street and see a house that is completely decked out with lights, yard decor, and other festive thematic stuff to mark the occasion.   Whether it's a giant, inflatable Santa guarding the front door or an oversized, furry tarantula laying claim to the front yard, it is almost an art form with all of the different ways people celebrate the holidays.   Stringing lights is one of the things that I have struggled with when it comes to sprucing up the house to announce the upcoming holiday.   It's almost as if I need an advance degree in geometry, physics, and calculus in order to compute the angles, length, and area of the windows as it relates to the lighted length of the string of lights that is to be put up.   I successfully decorated our front windows this year with some orange mini-lights, fabric pumpkin lights, and an interesting spider web light fixture as well.   Today, I wanted to see what kind of picture I could take of the lights outside.   Moving around them, inside and out, I tried all sorts of angles to get a neat photograph.   This one, I got underneath the window and shot up and wanted to see what it would like if a whole cluster of lights were in the shot.   Interestingly enough, I focused on one light and saw a neat picture unfold with the out of focus light bursts giving a bit of depth to the photograph.   With only a few days left until Halloween, I look forward to catching the ghosts and ghouls of the night walking around collecting copious amounts of great tasting sweets and enamel destroying chocolates.