christmas love {happy lights!}

13 December 2010

christmas love {happy lights!}

i simply can't get enough of anything and everything christmas! back in october i shared a few images from one of my favourite stores, vintage home, as they were setting out all of their fabulous christmas decor and decorating their trees. today i want to share another favourite- christmas lights! ever since i was a little girl, one of my very favourite things to do during the holiday season is to walk or drive around the valley and look at all of the christmas lights, decorations and storefronts at night. i feel that same childlike excitement every year when the christmas decorations go up on the street lamps on main street, when the stores fill their window displays with flowers and decorations, but most of all, when a few spots in particular put up their lights.

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{the culinary institute of america at greystone}

this building holds a special place in my heart for many reasons, but the most important being that this is where my husband and were married. i have loved this building as long as i can remember and one of the happiest days of the year for me is when they put up their christmas decorations and lights. so much so, that when my husband and i decided to have a winter wedding, i briefly tried to plan it around the window of time when these decorations would still be up!

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{far niente}

i wish that i had been able to capture a better photo as this one does not do justice to how spectacular this display truly is. i could wander around under those lit trees happily for hours.

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{beckstoffer vineyards}

this little wagon and tree makes me smile every year. i love it. these are the little things that i look forward to every christmas season and just another reason why i love living in the napa valley.

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