This beautiful Christmas display is still providing a much-needed splash of color to the trees near Sleepy Hollow on east Divide Avenue in Bismarck. As I’ve said before, I put the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack in my truck’s minidisc player with the first snowfall and don’t remove it until the snow’s gone the following Spring. I will gladly take an extended Christmas season, and I notice that there are a few kindred spirits around Bismarck and Mandan.

As things begin to transition from white and gray to gray and brown, it’s nice to see some bold color breaking up the monotony. The melting snow is going to make things pretty dirty for a while, and green grass and leafy trees are still several weeks away. In the mean time, it’s sights like this that give the eye a break from all the dreary grays and browns.