@ethelperry neither does that plumeria (franjapani) on the right! At least I went for the shots that contained some "simplicity" in their excess... You wouldn't believe the (literal) carnivals in some of the front yards!
@_catherine_ EVERYONE had a snowman...it was SO overdone......you can clearly see they were trying to maintain a certain level of understated sophistication...
@summerfield@allie912@digitalrn@lynnz@ethelperry@_catherine_@boxplayer@radiogirl@cglist@chard@teiko@kerristephens@voiceprintz I took delight in the variety of your responses to this one! Love it or hate it, it was someone's gift to the populace passing by, and for me, it was a "stand-out in simplicity" amidst "Disneyland South"! (yes, that's just 10 miles up the road...) My gratitude for this "gift" is that it was something interesting to photograph and I didn't have to get on the freeway at rush hour to find it!
Merry Christmas! Joyoux Noel! Bon Natale! Feliz Cumpleanos! and my childhood favorite, Mele Kalilkimaka! xox♥
@aglennc We have a neighborhood in the heart of Ftn Valley that has plenty to look at in a short walk...the little ones loved it! I enjoy Balboa Island, but the parking there is a nightmare, so we'll save that for "before New Year's Eve"... Merry Christmas!
@radiogirl I thought of your backyard when I put this one up! Actually, YOUR yard is the only snow scene of any worth that I've seen this month! In this Land of 'Enhancement', this is yet another Fake ;-)
@WeezilouLouise even though this is not real, it's amazing how much they have put into making this appear to be snow, very impressive, all we have to do is watch it FALL from the sky!!
@pyrrhula Oh, Ferry, the whole image is "movie magic"! In over 40 years in this same neighborhood, I have only seen a hail storm once that left the ground covered in white for about an hour! We do get snow in the mountain ski resorts about a 2 hour drive from here, but *never* snow in Orange County and Los Angeles! That is "cotton batting" that would be used to make quilts...not snow at all, but it does look real, doesn't it?! Many people around here use that to imitite snow, but I think it worked especially well in this case with all the "white and lights"!
Great find Louise.
Merry Christmas! Joyoux Noel! Bon Natale! Feliz Cumpleanos! and my childhood favorite, Mele Kalilkimaka! xox♥