More frosted pumpkins

Air temperature 21 F, sunny, winds near calm. Halloween decorations are shredded by squirrels or sagging into slime. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Nothing exceeds like excess

Downhill neighbor had a utility bucket truck out today, string holiday lights to the top of a maple tree, 40' up, plus/minus, in addition to eave lights all around the house and a few illuminated reindeer in the lawn. Oh, and more lights around a clump of evergreens, but those you can reach from the ground. Hope those are all LEDs, because otherwise they are going to stress the New England power grid.