The neighborhood across the street from our condo has a house that loves Star
Wars. During the Halloween season the yard had quite a few large decorations
which were now repurposed for Christmas. There was a Stormtrooper wearing a
Santa hat and carrying a candy cane:
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader was guarding the front door. He was carrying his
traditional light saber in one hand and a Christmas ornament in the other. At
his feet there was a gingerbread person wearing a stormtrooper helmet:
Later I observed something unusual right in my own development. There is a row of arborvitae planted along the arterial road next to the condos. Earlier this year the water department was doing some work to install mains for a new subdivision just to the south and had part of our street torn up. Soon afterwards two of the arborvitae right where they had been working started to brown up. A neighbor said an arborist came out and determined the tree roots were still alive and they would eventually put out new growth (which never happened). Someone added ornaments to the tree closest to the road.
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Oh my husband would love that! If I let him, he’d have Star Wars characters in our front yard! He’s also a recovering Trekkie.
ReplyDeleteCool Star Wars/Christmas mashup! And at least those poor dead arborvitae trees are going out with a bit of Christmas glamour.
ReplyDeleteLove repurposing of the Star Wars characters for Christmas. Hope that family knows there is a Millenium Falcon gingerbread kit out there to be built. Bulbs on that tree are reminding me of your Random Acts of Christmas Cheer.
ReplyDeleteThat was a creative re-use for sure and a very unusual holiday decoration. Nice that the dead trees have some holiday cheer in the form of lights.
ReplyDeleteFun deco!
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