I think the Southwest is beautiful in its own way--its starkness is the beauty. Greenery looks overwrought and out of place here, and lawns are too bright and unnatural-looking.
I saw a saguaro skeleton tonight with old-fashioned big multicolored lights wound around it. Very typical. And there are rows of luminarias along people's driveways. I love the traditional New England white Christmas--growing up in Maine, I got a lot of them--but the Southwestern Christmas, with its different traditions, is just as wonderful.
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Date: 2004-12-15 02:27 am (UTC)I think the Southwest is beautiful in its own way--its starkness is the beauty. Greenery looks overwrought and out of place here, and lawns are too bright and unnatural-looking.
I saw a saguaro skeleton tonight with old-fashioned big multicolored lights wound around it. Very typical. And there are rows of luminarias along people's driveways. I love the traditional New England white Christmas--growing up in Maine, I got a lot of them--but the Southwestern Christmas, with its different traditions, is just as wonderful.