Thursday, December 3, 2020

Let there be light

Grants Farm ... whats your immediate association?
Grants restored log cabin? 
Hot summer days sweating with a few hundred of your fellow St Louisans?
Tram ride through acres of animals lounging on the hillside 
and hiding in shaded, cool ravines?
Free beer in the courtyard?
The carousel?

Now add a free Christmas light display.
Reservations needed - and they may be booked up for this season...
but totally worth it.


Who knew the North Pole was right here in St Louis?



 While I'm quite sure this wasn't the intent,
the thin, elderly, Santa -
masked and bundled up on a porch -
looked and felt like visiting your old grandpa at the home
and only being able to wave while wishing him a Merry Christmas.
 
I realize it was a cold night, but a jolly animatronic Santa would have been better
than this sad reminder of the Covid reality we're all living through.
Such is our world in 2020.
 

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