Carla’s Flowers and Gifts in Linden has a yellow bicycle year-round to attract customers. The entrance to her store is just part of a well-lighted Linden square downtown.
The Fruge home on East Hiram Street during the Halloween holidays becomes a work of art, especially when the goblins and ghouls arrive to trick or treat. Even the adults stand on one side of the porch to say hello to everyone.
People from all over come to see the John Newkirk family of balloons which actually are larger than the front of the home itself.The popular scene is on Bogie Street in Atlanta.
Atlanta Floral can produce the most artistic windows displays throughout the year but especially at Christmas. In the scene above, the candles seemed to be actually burning and not electric or artificial. Business owners Scott and Misty Carter enjoy creat
Season of Lights
With the coming of January, the winter season of lights comes to an end. The landscape no longer has its colored holiday lights and so returns to grays, browns and blacks. The entertainment value of driving around to see the lights fades away, but the memories remain. Here are several of the best scenes from the holidays that began with Halloween, continued through Thanksgiving and Christmas and now ends in January.
During this time, the windows and yards of several merchants and home owners have been elegant. Government officials have put out as many decorations as they could get together. The lakeside parks have held their drive-throughs of colored campsites. Several parades have allowed the citizens to dress up and look their best.
Makers markets and other festivals have brought all kinds of people with their handcrafts to town. In one special event, those with lighted candles held them high and ran or walked through town in a glow run event.
One downtown business held a colorful Friday evening dinner theater treat.
Churches and schools put on programs and decorated. Everywhere one looked on their cell phones or television screens the people were smiling and singing.
Finally, Christmas, the best time of the year for families to gather, has now come and gone, too.
But coming next is spring and Easter. The colorful lights of this past season may have gone to rest and sleep. But this is only until the grass, birds, trees and flowers wake up to sprout and wave in the wind and sun.
Remember, if you can, that before too long the area will be having its wildflower trails celebrations. Nature’s season of year-round displays will be with us again.