Corner View: Darkness and Light

This was our house during the Christmas holidays.

Our house is set back quite a bit from the road,

so we have lots of privacy.

However, you could see it as soon as your rounded the bend in the road

with its white lights and the Christmas tree.

Our neighborhood went all out for Christmas decorations---

Three-fourths of the subdivision had Christmas lights on their houses.

A fiend of mine drove out in our neighborhood on a whim Christmas eve

and later told me that nowhere else in our small town

were there so many decorating participants in a concentrated area.

I enjoyed walking our dog and looking at the lights.

Most lights are down and put away now.

Ours are.

M. took advantage of a warm spell(30 degrees -ha!)

and took them down and put them away until next year.

(It is now 6 degrees out and was down in the negative digits---

no school for the first two days of this week.)

I like how these photos show the light smack dab in the middle of the darkness--

thus I thought these would work for the topic "Darkness and Light."

Our front entry is actually on the side of the house.

The front door opens up into one end of the long living room

that takes up the entire front of the house.

There is a beautiful bump-out of bay windows

and that is where our Christmas tree went.

The folks before us installed bright lights

to help in getting from the garage to the house..

M. now remembers to switch them on

 if I'm not home by 5 PM;

I had difficulty one night because of the total darkness

and he was gone so the house was almost completely dark 

on the inside too.

The lights coming from the first floor are from two large windows

in our kitchen.

They are on each side of a Vermont stove,

which right now is working quite hard

at keeping the kitchen warm.

This photo shows the beam of one of the large outdoor lights.

You can also see the light from our master bedroom's windows.

I have not been writing much on the Internet--just have been bogged down 

with the other stuff of life,

and often when I have a moment of quiet, 

I retreat into a good book.

{I'm presently reading the 4th installment 

in the No. 1 Detective Ladies' Detective Agency series.

It is called The Full Cupboard of Life.

The series take place in Botswana

and thus transport me to a different world.}

However, I always try to participate in Corner View.

Check out Francesca's place for more corner views.

They will be up early tomorrow.