Blaze Authors Blog » lights http://blazeauthors.com/blog Red Hot Reads Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:02:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What color are your Christmas lights? http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/12/07/what-color-are-your-christmas-lights/ http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/12/07/what-color-are-your-christmas-lights/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:00:42 +0000 Heather MacAllister http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2523 There are two kinds of people in the world–white light people and multi-colored light people. Okay and maybe those who decorate with a single, non-white color. I’m going to include them with the colored-light people because I think they secretly want to be colored-light people, but are intimidated by the trash talk from the white-light people who claim decorating with white lights is classier than using multi-colored lights. Piffle, I say. It’s the holidays! They’re supposed to be festive.sparkly_white_lights Twinkly fairy lights are pretty, but I can see them any time I drive past a restaurant with a patio. What’s special about that? For Christmas, bring on the color. Yes, I am a multi-colored Christmas light person. Not only that, but my tree lights twinkle. Individually. colored_teddy_lights At night, I like to stare at the random shadows the lights make on the ceiling. If it’s really quiet, I can hear a faint plinking sound as the bimetallic strips flex in the bulbs. To me, that’s the sound of Christmas.

Which is it for you–white lights or colored lights?

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