The city I live in, a suburb but right across the street from Minneapolis, decorated the trees lining the median of the street that goes to my apartment building with beautiful lights of unexpected colors -- violet, turquoise, peach, etc. -- that are wrapped tightly around the trunk and up into the branches rather than dangling from branch to branch.
They're still up as of this evening, and I for one still love looking at them. My suburb has been known as a place Jewish people have lived: the Cohen Bros. (their movie "A Serious Man" was filmed here), Al Franken, Thomas Freedman and a few other famous Jewish people came from here, etc. So maybe we can thank that for the community having different rules for lights? They went up during the holiday season, but they could go through the winter as far as I'm concerned. Heck, year around!
