You don’t need a tour guide to see Christmas lights.

Let me repeat myself, in case I wasn’t clear.

You don’t need a tour guide to see Christmas lights. What information is a tour guide possibly going to provide? “Christmas lights are a holiday tradition?” “This is an animatronic Mickey Mouse, star of Mickey Mouse’s Christmas Carol.” “Oh, there are some good lights on this street.”

There are good lights on every street in Dyker Heights, or at least that’s how it felt to me. And, I was not particularly picky about which ones I stopped and gandered at. The weather was fucking cold, and I accidentally left my gloves on my desk when I rushed to catch the train from my sister’s home.

And so, let me share my pictures, and my perspective, and a bit of background.