I took a walk the other evening to check out the Holiday lights in Manhattan. What surprised me was the limited decorations. Except for the areas where there is always some kind of visual holiday delight the rest of the city was quite unadorned. It was less than a week away from Christmas and most of the store windows were sorrowfully clad in some semblance of the holiday or at best a winter theme but only the big store were lavishly dressed. I thought there was a sad showing of the holiday spirit in the smaller shops. I wonder if it was the lagging economy, the uncertain times we live in that was reflected in these shops. But it was this photo made me begin to look more closely at how the city has nearly hidden decorations.
Christmas tree and the Empire State Building
Star suspended over 5th Avenue
