I think that if you live in the suburbs of any small town there’s always those houses that are a can’t-miss if you like to cruise Christmas lights, and let me tell you…Pickens has more than its fair share. There are plenty of folks around who don’t know what it means to jump the gun hanging up lights. They are there glowing well before Thanksgiving, power bills be damned.
There’s the powder-blue 1981 Lincoln Continental, parked just outside of town and festooned with year upon year of replaced light strands. It’s usually the first. Typically, a car parked by the road might draw attention from the city, especially since it has been there since ’87, but the Lincoln gets a pass. They’ve got the Christmas spirit after all.
There’s the nightmare inducing Tiny Town, a collection of knocked-together wooden doll houses covering a three-acre yard. I’m sure they look better in the daylight, but I can’t say there’s much of a reason to be hanging around there during the day. The lights are the draw, after all. No one starts during the day. The off-color lights and rain-drenched dolls probably draw sighs from “Nightmare Before Christmas” fans, but they are the only ones.
Don’t get me wrong. Everyone should do Christmas in their own way, whether it’s having your gardener put up the wicker reindeer every night to keep the frost from peeling the paint, or swapping presents over dinner at a Chinese restaurant. There are plenty of lights to catch in Pickens but we always check out Tiny Town and the Lincoln. That’s when you know Christmas is in the air.
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