Matt had the idea to go to Peacock Lane for our date this week, and I thought that was a great plan. I hadn’t been since I was in the single digits.
Peacock Lane is a few blocks of houses in southeast Portland where every house decorates big. This has been going on since the 1920s.
Here are some pictures from our walk.
For shear tons-of-stuff delight, this display of many unicorns was my favorite house. Some houses have elaborate themes (as you will see); but I liked this unicorn-centered house. Unicorns don’t even have anything to do with Christmas, but they were magical all the same.
Matt and I in front of the unicorns.
People live in these houses as we were reminded by this pair who were clearly standing at the door on business. I wonder how it is to try and drive in and out during the two weeks with the lights. There is a lot of car traffic (though it’s slow) and a ton of pedestrians. Do people just stay in? Park their cars on other streets?
Anyway, that was the Harry Potter house, and here we are walking through Platform 9 and 3/4.
The Home Alone house has a lot going on. It starts with this little shadowbox.
And includes several life-size depictions of characters from the movie.
The Star Wars house is nicely minimal. I liked that there were three distinct zones: red, Darth Vadar; white, Princess Lea; and green, Yoda.
A nice sentiment at this house:
And a fun homage to ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas at this one:
The Peanuts house was fun, including Woodstock on the Zamboni.
And here’s a nice greenery and white lights display:
On the way home, we stopped at our own Kenton neighborhood display:
I like to call it “I’ll have one of everything, please!”