This first set are photos of luminarias in Albuquerque that my friend Debbie sent me. She lives near old town, and they make real luminarias the traditional way, with sand and candles set in paper bags. (I use plastic, plug-in luminarias.)






I’ve seen a few luminarias in Tucson, but not many. We didn’t know which neighborhoods to go to for that. Here’s some rather extravagant lights we saw in a neighborhood quite a ways north of ours. I hope they have solar panels!



Yeah, that one was just nuts.









And here’s my absolute favorite:

The grinch stealing the lights right off the house, that’s the best!
I think I already posted our house lights, but here that is again:

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