What, more Christmas pictures??? The first week of January??? How terribly passe - wasn't that the holiday before last?
However, I never got a chance to get over to the local byword of electrical excess, right here in Jamaica Plain, till this evening when my neighbor asked if I wanted to join her for a little picture taking. And in genteelly retro Boston, the cars were still pulling up nonstop as if at Old Faithful, so much so that when I took pictures from across the street I had next to no time to click between the departures and arrivals.
This is the house with near-daily visits from the power company, to install higher capacity transformers and fix blown switches in the local supply.
The difference from most similar gaudy displays is that this house is actually quite picturesque on its own, with its rustic fieldstone work, Tudor gables and tower, so it stands up to the lights, becomes a gingerbread house as its right and patrimony.
