Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Day 75: The Illumination

Photo of the Day: Christmas Spectacular


This is the scene I've passed every day for the past two weeks whenever I enter or exit my office building. Working next to Radio City Music Hall, it's no wonder that I've walked home whistling It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas literally every single day. Today was special, however, because it's the first time I've seen the tree illuminated. While the neon is lit year-round and the wreaths and garlands have been glowing for weeks, the massive cone atop the marquee has remained dark until now. It was a pleasant and breathtaking surprise to leave work today and see the Christmas tree in its full glory, shimmering with a thousand points of constantly-changing colored lights. Every day, I see city workers up in treetops adding more strands of lights to the city's shrubbery and makes me excited to see the final effect when it all finally comes together.

A close up on the Radio City Music Hall tree topper.
I kept Kayla amused today by letting her play games on my cell phone.

4 comments:

  1. Kayla is too cute!

    Great Radio City Music Hall pic. Is it a real Christmas tree under all those lights, though?

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  2. I'm not able to personally check it out since it's up high and out of reach. However, given the tree's unnaturally perfect conical shape, I have to assume it's fake.

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  3. you know, if they really did chop down a Christmas tree that huge just for decoration, i'd be really upset. given that it's so unnatural looking, though, i'm not worried.

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  4. I took a closer look. It's definitely fake.

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