It is more than a month since Christmas, and some people still have their Christmas lights up (although, as one can tell from the above picture, they are hard to photograph).
At this point, do the people who have these lights even think of them as Christmas lights, or as some kind of general winter lights?
I don’t like Christmas lights in January, because they remind me that the Christmas season is over, and it won’t be back for a long time.
A similar phenomenon that I noticed in the fall is that some people will put out Halloween pumpkins, and then after Halloween the pumpkins become Thanksgiving pumpkins, and stay out until the end of November. But then other people put out their Christmas lights before Thanksgiving, and so there is a period of overlap in which some houses have pumpkins, and adjacent houses have Christmas lights.
That is a contrast of textures, or flavors, or whatever, that I really don’t like.
Squirrels do seem to like the pumpkins, though.
