2009 Christmas Light Display

Please click on the image to take a walk around the display

The only acceptable type of light pollution that I can sign off on is that of the every twinkling Christmas lights.  Observing during the christmas month is generally poor so I give those in my development something to gaze at in place of the heavens that generally are socked in by rain during that time of year here in the Pacific Northwest!

 

The 2007 Display comprised over 80K lights and took more than 70 hours to put up.

 

 

Here is the 2006 Christmas light display.  It uses about 60K lights running on 80 amps of electrical output.  Not as much of the roofline was lit this year as we were still using old incandescents unlike the 2007 display.  Also make note how much brighter the display of 2007 became in comparison to the 2006 when switching to the LED illumination.

2005 was the first Christmas in the new house.  IT was a humble beginning with only 40 amps of electrical output and about 20K lights.  But it looks real pretty in the snow that we had that year.

2004 was a bummer year....no christmas lights.  But Santa was working on our present dilligently.  We sold our old house and had to be out by thanksgiving, but the new one would not be completed till May.  With only 2 weeks to move out our parents graciously took in at that time the three of us and our 2 dogs.  Thanks Mom and Dad!

2001 was the first christmas as a dad!  My first daughter Karly was only 2 weeks old.  Let me tell you that's a pretty steep learning curve about sleep deprivation!  It was a modest year for lights I really hadn't caught the bug too bad, we had only been in the house for a couple of years.  The digital age was just taking place with regards to small handheld video camcorders, and digital cameras were fairly new as well.  I was able to grab a snapshot off of some old footage of the house so forgive the terrible quality.  It just demonstrates where the beginning was and the progression over the next few years.