Tim & Jackie Puppe Greetings from Rochester Minnesota. We have been adding lights every year, this year there are 11,573 lights. already planning for 2008! Love the website, thanks!

Merry Christmas to all, from the Schultz family. 52,000 lights with 112 channels.

Hi there and Merry Christmas! This is the display my brother and I do on our mother's house in Louisville, KY. My brother and I are 25 and 23 respectively and have been doing this since we were 15 and 13. We have approximately 25,000 lights and over 100 blowmolds! Enjoy! -Casey Wagner

We are located in Covina, CA. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All. The Aclans

Here's our Christmas house lit up for the Christmas season. There are about 12,000 lights on the house with a couple of snowmen skiing , ice skating rope light structures 10' tree with train, and nativity in front. Hope to go computer controlled next year! thanks for such a great sight. From the Breese's of Canton, Illinois

Hello from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, This is our display which received a highly commended award in our local competition this year. The display consists of 20,000 lights. Around 8500 of the lights are hand painted with glass paints to create an artistic and colourful display. Our children love handing out Christmas lollies to all the visitors that come around and really enjoy the atmosphere and spirit of Christmas. Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and fantastic 2009. The Ford Family

All 9 reindeer, including Rudolph, are flying up into the sky. The display started in Wisconsin, but was relocated to Cedar Hill MO.

This is our home in Arlington, TEXAS. We love the Christmas and decorating our cul-de-sac home gets the neighborhood in Christmas spirit! I really love the site and thank you so much for all the great ideas! Merry Christmas everyone!! The Lubin Family

Hi Chuck, We’ve setup our first synchronized light display. I say first because this year we are using a 16-channel controller with a “monster brain” and 99% LED lights (some of the static items are non-LED). Last year I used the GE Christmas-in-a-box. I’ve attached a static picture and the video can be seen and downloaded at http://topsailislandchristmas.topsail-online.com/index.php/christmas-2008/. Many thanks and Merry Christmas! Glen Pierce, Sterling Bryson, Surf City, NC

Hello From the Schrimp / Guerena Family of San Juan Capistrano, CA. This is our 14th year of decorating. We like to do things a little different and do not like to have the same type of decorations that you might see at another home, so we custom build 80% of our decorations. We have over 25,000 lights, falling snow, 3 dozen animated characters, a 10 ft. tall drumming toy soldier, a 12 ft. tall Ferris wheel, and so much more for all to enjoy. New to this years decorating is a laser light show that runs all night. We hope everyone in the area can come by to enjoy our contribution to the holiday spirit. 31142 Via Cristal, San Juan Capistrano, CA. 92675

Hello. www.lightsofmodesto.com Is our website. Lights of Modesto is a computer controlled Light-O-Rama house that takes Christmas lights and seasonal decorating to a whole new level. All of our controllers are built from scratch with hours, weeks, months, and years of programming and construction put into the annual show. If you're looking for a house where you can view lights from your car, this is the one for you. Turn your car radio to 92.3 FM and watch as our commercial grade lights dance to the music. Merry Christmas! thanks =) Lightsofmodesto.com

Showing a little Xmas Spirit in Sunny San Diego. 48 Channels, All LED lights. Domes on top of tree contains Hundreds of crystal lights and take 8 channels.

Hi Chuck, Happy Holidays to you and your family as well as everyone in the Planet Christmas World. Here is a picture from my display this year. I had thoughts of giving up on doing a display but I guess it just in my blood. It is really fun to hear the children and their parents comment on the lights. It gives you the warm feeling inside. Have a safe and happy holiday season. Jon and Carol Fiedler Ellicott City, MD.

This is 5yr old display in Hastings, New Zealand. We have over 31,000 lights and the bubble machine is a hit with the kids. We are also the home of www.christmasdisplays.co.nz. An On-line community of lighters from New Zealand. Merry Christmas to all.

Hello, Here is our 2008 Candy Cane Christmas House located in St. Louis, MO. This is our 4th year of decorating. We've made it to about 75% LED. Hopefully next year will be 100% with computerized lights. That's our goal. Thanks for letting us show off. Our house is located at 5505 Oakville Heights St. in South County St. Louis.

Hi Chuck, Here’s my submission. Hi-Res version here: http://www.severex.com/
images/xmas/xmas_pano_hd.jpg Website: www.severex.com/xmas Merry Christmas! Dave Severns, Sunnyvale, CA

Hi Chuck, My name is Wayne and I'm attaching a picture of our house, located in Whiting, NJ, displaying our Christmas Light Show. This is our second year and we have graduated from a 16 channel system to a 32 channel system with approximately 10,000 colored/white lights and two standing deer. We programmed our show with four songs, one from Mannheim Steamroller and three from Trans-Siberian Orchestra. My wife and I spent from October to the middle of November stringing the lights and making the necessary zip cords need to attach the various lights to the controller boxes. All of our neighbors have been anxiously awaiting the new show for this year, we've gotten quite a lot of positive feed back and our dead-end street has seen more activity since running the show! Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and health New Year from the Asonys!

Mele Kaliki Maka from Kalaheo, HI 96741. Simple display with mixed of inflatables, wire & molds (some 25+yo), mixed (50%) of regular bulbs & led’sthis year is 26yrs for our display for all the children on Kauai, very easy to find… GPS point for the 25ft lighted Xmas tree = N 21d 35’ 40.61” W 151d 31’ 41.18”, if you don’t see from Kaumualii Hwy then you are LOST… Aloha/

Merry Christmas from San Marcos, CA. Here are pictures of the outside and inside of our home. We have about 28,000 outside lights with assorted blow ups, blow molds, and animatronics. The inside is decorated with Santas that we have collected over 30 years. Christmas is our favorite time of year! Brad and Denise Bradshaw

Happy Holidays from the Myers Family. Military Housing only allows a few decorations to go up, one day I hope to have a house when I retire to do it big like the rest of you. This site is wonderful and always cheers me up. Seasons Greetings and thank you for your support of the military.

Hi Chuck: This is Michael Wright in Fayetteville. Wanted to say Merry Christmas and hope all finds you and the family well. Also, My first cookbook AT HOME WITH MICHAEL: MY MOST REQUESTED RECIPES came out November 8 and it has exceeded our expectations. I was wondering if you might say something about it in the PlanetChristmas community. The book is now profitable and I am now able to donate some of the proceeds to charity. You my also review my website at http://www.athomewtihmichael.com. That is where my book may also be purchased. Hope we can work together as I will add a link for PlanetChristmas to my website. Merry Christmas, Michael

Hi Chuck. Emailing you this years photo of our display in Birmingham, UK. This has been collected over many years and is set-up by a 17 year old lad (me) and his girlfriend. This year we are doing it for Charity. More pics and information can be found at www.lights4charity.net We hope you like our efforts. This is definitely our best year yet! Bring on 2009! Cheers, Dave

Dale Woodall, Pickford Point, Madison MS. 40,000 lights on 200 LOR Channels. for details, go to http://www.MississippiChristmas.com

Thank you for allowing me to be a member. I trying to start a online business selling inflatables. It is here that I noticed in www.tsnn.com under 'plus' your PLUS2009 was not listed. I'm looking for ward to seeing this in KY. This is a trip for me is from one end of IN to the other .and 'over the river'. When my site is running I would to be link to yours. Again Thanks for reminding me about keeping the joys of Christmas year round. Merrily yours Joe Olenik

Here is one photo of our home.

Hello from the yard of Alfred and Cheryl von Hollen in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada. Our 2008 display includes more than 8o,000 LED lights, 74 inflatables, and four nativities. Two controllers animate twenty artificial trees in the front and twelve stars in the back. There are numerous static displays of blow molds and inflatables. Thousands of visitors park their vehicles and walk the pathway that encircles our home. Our town designates the lane behind our home one way during the light display hours. We collect food for our local food bank and are featured on radio and television as well as the local newspapers. Please click on this link to take a tour of our yard. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwraD7oo2M Have a blessed Christmas.

Seasons Greetings! I thought that our giant reindeer should be on your site. My husband built it out of PVC pipe and it is 16' tall. The head / neck unit is animated and moves back and forth. The reindeer is located in Boulder Creek, CA. Here is a picture of it we took this morning for our Christmas card to send out this year. Cheers! The Ellis family

8000 Lights (mini, rope, C9, flood) 64 dimable channels (REN-C + Grinch) 10W Sterio amplifier and outdoor speakers Vytautas Ziukas http://www.christmasinallen.com

This is my fifth year. Not much has changed since last year. Added a blow up Santa and a few more animated deer. About 6000 lights now. The worst part about this year was I broke my ankle leaping from the roof. I learned that isn’t the quickest way to get off the roof. Either way I finished it with a cast on my leg and in crutches! Merry Christmas from Dave and Windy in Clearwater, Florida 2008.

Here's some pictures of my house, I have been doing the lights now for 25 years and add on every year. I live so close to BWI airport that I have to call them so planes don't think it's the runway. there's over 2,000 sets of lights ,That's right I said sets. Mickey Mouse ridding a train around the yard, yard blow ups, and you can listen to Christmas music in your car on 87.7 or hear it playing through speakers in the yard and watch some Christmas lights beat to the music. Some nights there is over 200 cars a night to see the lights. I also do the neighbors house's to and to the festival of lights. The lights are on from Dec. 1st to Jan. 1st 5:00 pm to 10:30 pm. 528 Delmar Ave Glen Burnie, Md 21061 [between La Fontaine Bleu and Harundale plaza , off of 5th Ave] Tony and Darleen Iorio

Merry Christmas from Pennsylvania! Here is our family's house for the 2008 holiday. Every year I try to add a few more lights. This year I added four dedicated 15-amp GFI circuits just for Christmas lights alone. I tried to get as much of the house in as possible. This year, I decorated the deck and the shed. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year!!! David Reiner

Chuck, I would like to submit my pictures for the 2008 showing off section on the site, This is my 3rd time around doing this, It's More or less the same with exception of replacing standard bulbs for the brighter and much nicer led lights in a lot of areas. I just want to share my holiday spirit and wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Martin & Cindy Hodgson , Bayport NY

This is our first year running Light O Rama animation on 40 channels. Our display includes a 15 foot mega tree and strobe strings on the house. We are very proud of our display; so much time and love made it possible. Merry Christmas everyone! Tyler

Merry Christmas from Slapout Alabama! Our display this year consist of a 15ft mega tree with over 6,000 lights. For more photos please visit: http://www.bamapages.com/christmas/
detail/13/slapout-alabama.html

This is our 6th year of lighting up the block. This year we have over 18,000 lights with 1,700 lights on the tree in the back yard and 2,800 lights on the chimney. “Hoppe” Holidays Micah Hoppe, Camarillo, CA

Happy Holidays from Kenosha Wisconsin. This is our third year with an animated display of approximately 25000 lights. Our newest display addition this year is Morris. As a kid, I often listened to Morris the Moose by the Peppermint Kandy Kids. This years show included his theme song. The 2 pics I’m including are one of the house and one of Morris. Here is the youtube link as well if you’d like to hear this awesome song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYgUaGYREo See you again next year. James & Carri Kiehl

Clem P. Vinas of Potomac Falls, Virginia, Happy Holidays.. been decorating for the last 15 years

Dear Chuck, I'm glad to send you my web site www.lacasadibabbonatale.com, the number 1 in Europe with its 232,728 lights and LEDs and with 248 channels. Happy Christmas to you all! Max Goglio from Italy (Melegnano-Milan)

Hi – hope you are having a great holiday season. I have attached a photo of the display – we call it “Christmas in the O. C.” This is our first year doing animation and the response has been overwhelming – with the p. With over 15,000 lights, 5000 feet of extension cord and 80 channels, the lights in the O. C., Oak Cliff Texas are officially dancing. North Oak Cliff is in Dallas – 75208. Featured are dancing candy canes, 70 feet of chasing garland, a firework palm tree, smoke puffs from the chimney, and a parachuting Rudolph! The show runs on Sunday – Thursday nights from 5:30pm to 10:00pm and Friday and Saturday nights from 5:30pm to 11:00pm. Thanks for allowing us to show off!

We have over 20,800 lights. I made a 15 foot Megatree with 2” Pvc and it has over 4200 lights. We have 16 Minitrees that have 300 to 600 lights. I have 2 Polar Bears that are skiing down a steep hill in front of the house along with 3 11’ Pole Trees at the bottom. We have many Deer and other decorations scattered throughout the yard and front porch. Next year I plan to do Light o Rama as I ran out of $ this year. We are located at 424 Anna Mattison Rd. Oxford, AL 36203 Scott.

Chuck buddy! Our house was recently shown on a local ABC news cast and then aired on Fox and Friends National TV morning Show and ABC World Television worldwide. We are over 45,000 LEDs and counting daily on 288 AC channels and 16DC channels. We have had an estimated 1200 vehicles Friday night, 1600 Saturday night and about 1400 Sunday night. Tour busses out of Syracuse are now bringing people in from miles around and I have been receiving fan mail from as far away as Vancouver Island, BC and Europe. You can visit us on the web at www.atkinschristmas.com. We just want to spread the word!!!

JD Schuck
Katy Texas

This year we felt it was important to go out of our way to make the world laugh when designing this Hawaiian display of lights because so many in the world are so depressed this year. While sitting this silly display up people stopped and said "Thank You" to us to putting it up. Thank you for putting up a Christmas display? That just made us cry so we decided to add more to this tropical celebration of life holiday display. We replaced some lights with tiki torches and silk red and white flowers to show our support to conserve energy this year. This year we have tiki gods to protect all from despair this holiday season. We have pink flamingos to signify life is just peachy even when doom glooms over us. We have palm trees swaying in the winds to show change is coming. We have all sorts of crabs, sea horses, and tropical fish swimming in lighted kelp along the display's outer edges to show that sometimes all we need to do in life is just go with the flow. We have a Christmas fire breathing dragon wearing a Santa hat to say to all those who have lost their homes in the fires these past few years you have not been forgotten. We have frogs leaping for joy in the background to say things will not last as they are now there is joy in the world. Of course we have HULA GIRL in the middle of this telling all that none of us are strangers in this world but instead we are all friends just waiting to meet. And we put a huge sun over her head to show Christmas does not have to have snow ... Christmas is where the heart is... Over head on the roof we have Santa on a Jet Ski with his bag of good stuff for the world to enjoy. And also in big letters through out the display are signs which reads "MELE KALIKIMAKA" which means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian. This Hawaiian light display is our gift to the world to show a change is coming just hang in there people. We have tried to get this whole display in pictures but can't seem to get it all in so these are just some pictures we took of it this year. To get a good laugh you must see this in person...

We don't use computerized light shows or airblown inflatables, just 50,000+ lights, some animation, a few blow molds. Merry Christmas from the McCall's in Archdale NC

Here's our place in Fredericksburg Virginia for 2008! Howard

Merry Christmas from Mike & Tami Medhurst (aka - Greeley Grizwalds), Greeley, Colorado. Our display has over 108,000 lights, and are on nightly from 5:30 pm till 10:00 pm from the day after Thanksgiving through New Years Day. The display is computer controlled with 240 separate light channels. The lights are synchronized to music. The music is broadcast over a low power FM radio transmitter. In the yard there is over 20 animated decorations. There is a Santa's Workshop that is 12' long with 3 windows and 9 animated elves and Santa. The giant tree stands about 48ʼ high. 10 multi color and clear arches, 36ʼ feet wide, span the driveway. 26 separate red, green, and clear sections cover the roof along with five 11ʼ tall trees. The yard and house is also decorated for Halloween (the month of October)www.greeleygrizwalds.com.

Chuck, Here is my display in Ruskin, Florida. This was my first year using the animated Light display system. Thanks to Jeo Frelin, Paul at animated lighting and Ben Debrocke in Riverview, Florida for their support in doing the animated jump, I have 13,500 lights this year. I also need to thank my family for their support in getting this set up and my brother Steve for his patience with me during the placing of the lights. The c-9's the the GE C-9's that really help in calculating the amps for the controller. Next year I hope to add to the light total as with more channels. I had 16 channels with the animated light system. Maybe 32 or 48 channels next year. Have a great Christmas from sunny Florida. The Klieger Family

Merry Christmas from the Ransbury's in Powell River B.C. We truly enjoy your site and have been coming in here for inspiration for the past few years. This is the first year we have submitted a picture and we realize we still have a long way to go. We started a small web site this year mainly for family and friends but please feel free to take a peek and share any input. It can be found at http://herbs.shawwebspace.ca/. We also enjoy decorating inside and that we start in early November. Thanks for All Your Great Work. Please keep it going. Herb & Franca Ransbury

Merry Christmas from Minnesota, we live in Golden Valley a suburb of Minneapolis, and have enjoyed lighting up for 18 years. Each year I say this is the last but the thank you cards and comments through out the year keep us going. We have a large tree in our yard so we actually have two separate looks to our display.

Merry Christmas from The Shumans! This our 4th year of having the neighborhoods biggest light display here in Pickerington, Ohio. We hope to have even more next year! Merry Christmas from Justin, Kris, Pappy and Chuckie!

Merry Christmas to all, from the Bill and tara 50,000 lights with 144 channels, 3 hours of synchronized music. Thanks to Christopher from Atlanta for taking the picture. Bill Learning

We have been lighting up the block for 7 years now. My 9 and 13 year old sons help get the display started the week before Thanksgiving. This year we are just shy of 20,000 lights. I like creativity and went with a simple theme; red, white and green lights. We put 1,700 green light on our tree in the back yard to give the house some depth and 2,800 lights on the chimney (my personal favorite). The wooden trees in the front yard our hand made as is the "Hoppe Holidays" sign above (our last name is Hoppe). The wreaths are all hand made and wrapped with lights. The 6 poles in the front of the house are wrapped with strands of red and white multi channel light that have been wire-tied together. The white lights twinkle and fade in and out to give life to the display. The Angels are new this year and they twinkle as do the snowman. The twinkling gives the house a great effect. The lighted trees are made from upside down tomato holders. This year we put 1000 lights on the X-Mas tree inside the house. Every year we add more and more and the best part for me is the bond with my sons as we work together putting up the display. Our neighbors really enjoy the lights as well. I get comments like, "we look forward to your lights every year" or "Your house looks better every year". Seeing families and children enjoy our display makes the hard work pay off in the best way. I love it. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy putting up the lights. Season's greetings, Micah Hoppe and the Hoppe Family

So I upped it this year and went partly animated... Using a few chaser controllers to animate the spiral trees, and another one to alternate green candy canes w/ green c9's outlining the yard to red candy canes with red c9's outlining the yard. Also decided to put my theatrical background into use by projecting snowflakes onto the garage - 500w in itself! Added some blowups (inside the gate unfortunately); and a total of 8,400 lights! Merry Christmas from San Jose, California!

Hi. Here we go again for 2008 Christmas festivity. We are from 11 Lebanon crs Mulgrave Australia and we love to add lights to our house and give that special Christmas Spirit. We take about 6 weeks to decorate and put all the lights on. This year we have 35.000 thousand lights plus motorizing items, they are home made and from USA. We also collect money for Make a Wish. We wish to all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I have only been putting up lights for the last 4 years and for the last 3 years we have had a Christmas Light contest. I am hoping that this year I can win the neighbor best lights prize.

Happy Holidays from Savannah, Georgia! This is my first year of decorating our house for Christmas with Light-O-Rama controllers. This year we are using 48 LOR channels and ~41,432 lights, and next year once GA Power runs me new mains I will go to 336 channels and ~400,000 for the house. Photos and information about our display can be found on our website http://www.peabody-christmas.com . We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! David Peabody

Chuck – Here is a quick picture of our display this year. The static photos don’t do it justice. More info/videos/pictures can be found at www.aklights.org . We sponsor Toys-4-Tots yearly and last year had more than 1800 toys and $800 in cash donated at our home for the program. Happy Holidays to you and the rest of PC! Cheers, Joe.

Greetings and Merry Christmas to everyone, and a big thanks to all who are serving and who have served in the armed forces. A big thanks to you all! Our display is In Davenport Acres in Ludowici, GA. It has both static and animated displays. Many inflatables also. We are running 80 Light-O-Rama computer controlled channels with about 10 songs. Show runs About 30 mins then starts over. Hours are Mon-Thurs 6pm-10pm and Fri-Sun 6pm-11pm, Does not run if raining. We have many lights, how many i don't know. Will have to count them some day. Come on by and enjoy, Tune your radio to 99.3 FM to hear the music and watch the lights.

Our house is decorated with animated lawn ornaments, musical Christmas trees, and thousands of lights..Neighbors stop by every night and view the display. We received a letter from one of our neighbors saying that we have "captured the essence of Christmas". Have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year! The Tarantino's

Chuck here is a picture of my cubical. I used 4260 lights, pulling almost 15 Amps from several places around the office. We do this every year but this year I put up a few extra lights!

Chuck, Please place the attached pictures in your showing off section on Planet Christmas. Thank you, Don Bixler

Stephen Blue’s 2008 Tacky Light Display in Deltaville Virginia – over 55,000 lights, with a 20’ mega tree, 2x – 15’ semi-Mega Trees, and more than a dozen 10’ PVC trees to form a forest of lights. A real boat (with lights, of course) sits in a pond of lights, fed by a running river of lights. Penguins sit on an iceberg of lights nearby. Numerous other figures and features are spread over the 100’+ wide display. For more pictures, visit http://christmas.coastalsteve.com.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Boughs of Holly. D-Light. Aurora. 96 channels. 6 ACx16s. 50,000 lights. 1 Firefly. 7 inflatables. 2 blowmolds. 10 songs total. Christmas Surprise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBy_pNHRCP0. Where does our Christmas spirit come from? It started when I was a little girl. My mom was always very into Christmas, but she would never decorate very much. I was always fascinated with the Christmas trees that we got. I would lay under the tree and gaze up at the beautifully glowing lights. As I got older, I would decorate my parents homes, and then when I moved to college I had as much of our tiny apartment decorated as possible-with the theme of those beautiful glowing lights that would remind me of my childhood. My husband and I would watch National Lampoons Christmas vacation and I always told him "I want that to be us! I want to be incredibly decorated!" But he always told me "then you get out there and do it!" Finally last year, GE came out with their lights and sounds. My husband being a programmer, bought it for me. And that is where the addiction started for him. We had a nice change from our normal Christmas' that year. But my husband wanted more. So, unbeknownst to me, he started searching for ways to make a larger scale than the GE offered. And he found D-light. He spent the entire year-from January all the way through October of this year-buying and soldering controllers and gathering Christmas items and lights. Then on October 6th, he presented me with a van full of stuff. There were lights and animated sculptures, bells and wreathes. I was so excited! We started decorating that day and it took us until the middle of December to finish. So why do we spend what our friends call "so much time and dedication" creating this massive light display? Aside from the little girl inside of me that says "more of those pretty glowing lights!" we want to bring the Christmas spirit back into an area that is losing it. Local news stations are reporting that as a result of the economy, people just are not decorating. And indeed we can see the results. Very few people have decorations up outside at all. We have had two big viewings of our display this year so far, with a third lined up tonight, and the reactions we are receiving have made the months spent well worth it. "You have made my Christmas, thank you so much!" "I cannot decorate in my tiny apartment and you just brought the Christmas sprit our for me, thank you!" "This is unbelievable!" are some of the comments we are receiving. We also decorate big inside. There are lights everywhere, on top of the largest real tree we can fit in our house-10ft. I have my Christmas village sprawling along the backside of my living room. We aren't stopping here-there are grand plans for next year and people can't wait to see them! Tara and Chris Barr

My display consist of over 140,000 lights, neatly arranged in a winter wonderland theme. I've been decorating my house for over 15 years, each year adding something new. I have 19 blue spruce trees with white lights, that grow each year. This year I had to add 22 boxes of net lights to cover them. I have many figurines, including, deer, angels, a red nose Rudolf leading the other 7 reindeer pulling Santa on a sled, Santa ridding bicycles, Santa in a model T pick up, a projector showing Christmas videos, a 4 ft man in the moon with a Santa hat on 24 ft. in the air, Santa fishing with fish jumping out of the water, and many more decorations. I've won several local contest with this, Thanks PlanetChristmas! JIM & SHIRLEY COREY 1411 LAKEWOOD DR.,AMELIA,OH,-45102

Sorry for the blur, it was snowing as the picture was taken. I did manage to get to 9050 lights total in this picture though.

Sorry for the blur, it was snowing as the picture was taken. I did manage to get to 9050 lights total in this picture though.