Nomination: Most Absurd Seasonal Lawn Decoration

[hrj]

This is the time when I wish I had a digital camera so I could make my nomination in proper form. But visualize if you will:

The scene is Maine. Snowy Maine. Glistening white diamonds cover the yards in a blanket. A light dusting of flakes is drifting down out of the sky. And there on the lawn is a six-foot-high inflatable plastic snow globe, containing a four-foot-high inflatable plastic snowman, with a fan-blower constantly recirculating a swirl of styrofoam "snow".

In Maine. In winter. Sitting on top of a snowbank. With snow coming down.

Comments

[gunnora.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered anything that redundant before. But we did find one house a year or two back that was particularly interesting with a plastic Santa kneeling before a lit-up plastic Baby Jesus in a creché, with the Virgin Mary enshrined in... half an old bathtub set on end into the lawn looking on approvingly.

This would have been startling even if the number of lights would have sufficed to illuminate your average major league sports stadium, and that the electricity powering them could probably have provided the annual energy budget for any third-world country.

For my two øre, San Antonio, Texas, still gets the prize for "tackiest Christmas decorations" and "most overdone Christmas decorations". A group of my friends and I often go touring around. We "collect" the two types of displays. Wealthy meighborhoods with a big cash prize for best decorations usually are a VERY fruitful ground for the "overdone" type.