Christmas Lights

LAYTON -- Walt Disney may have come up with the term "plussing," but Don Wilhelm is living proof of the idea.

By providing service throughout Layton, those affected by Wilhelm's work say he is the perfect example of Disney's phrase, which means taking a good idea and making it better.

Oh Christmas house, oh Christmas house,

How lovely are your lights.

In red and green and blue and orange,

Twinkling through the nights.

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It's a lovely holiday image, isn't it? Or does this revised carol sound more like your perfect holiday nightmare?

Yank down that multicolored mess of electrification, you cry. String up clear lights instead, strand after strand of pure whiteness shining along the eaves.

HARRISVILLE -- It's a redneck Christmas on Larsen Lane where Isaac Oberg has created a unique outdoor display.

Oberg, a self-proclaimed redneck, has three lighted Christmas deer in his yard. One deer is hanging from a tree with red lights representing flowing entrails, and two are stacked on top of each other simulating copulation with red lights representing male genitalia.

LAYTON -- The lone dark spot in the city's popular holiday lighting display will have light this year.

City officials extended the underground electricity in order to light a new section of Layton Commons Park near Constitution Circle. When they turn on the annual lights on Nov. 21, the area that used to be dark will now have lights in the trees and new lighted animals on the ground.

A few Top of Utah residents can give Clark Griswold's trademark holiday spirit a run for its money.

Griswold, played by Chevy Chase in the 1989 comedy "Christmas Vacation," was infatuated with the idea of the perfect Christmas -- including a house that glowed in the snow, plastered from foundation to chimney in holiday lights.

LAYTON -- The "Happy Holidays" banners along Main Street are a new touch to the city's holiday decorations, but they are just a preview of things to come.

OGDEN — Even the elves will get in on the fun during Saturday’s lighting of Christmas Village.

“Have Your ’elf a Merry Little Christmas” is the theme for this season’s version of the popular holiday attraction at the Ogden Municipal Gardens, 25th Street and Washington Boulevard.

But before the village lights come on, Santa and his elves must arrive in the annual Holiday Electric Light Parade.