I happened upon a television program highlighting extreme lighting displays and decorations for Christmas at three different homes in the USA. It was wild, to say the least, with lights covering every square foot of the yards and houses. These lights were color coordinated and blinking to a tune blaring on the sound system. There were reindeer, snowmen, angels, Christmas trees, and anything Christmas related that comes to mind. It is not that I don't appreciate what it took to create these displays. I would be in the loony bin if that was up to me. But it isn't, because displays like that are not in everyone's budget or engineering ability. This morning I drove up and down the 14 blocks in my neighborhood looking for displays I thought were interesting, creative, and unique. (Probably no need to mention, any blowup displays were excluded.) This homeowner on my block took advantage of the lovely green porch and decorated with colorful ...