What’s better than a calendar to tell you that October Conference is past? Crews putting up Christmas lights around Temple Square.
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Wow, really? I guess it would take several weeks to get all those lights in place…
I guess I’d better get mine up, too… 🙂
Or at least tell anybody who has complained about your not taking them down last year that you were getting a jump on them this year.
I wish I had the franchise for the rental of those lifts in SLC this month!
And what’s that Temple of Dendur-looking building just behind the people on the walkway?
Mark, this picture is actually on North Temple just in front of the Relief Society Building, so what you see is at the entrance to the Main Street Paza. The front of that thing is a fountain. I’m not sure what else it is — part of the ventilation system for the underground parking? housing for machinery of some kind? They are at each of the Plaza’s North and South Temple entrances.
I dislike it when Christmas decorations go up before Thanksgiving — it feels like it is part of the relentless commercial push to make the season earlier and earlier.
But, I imagine that putting them up is a lot of work, and with weather concerns, what can I say… As long as they don’t turn them on too early.
The lights don’t go on until the Friday after Thanksgiving. They put up hundreds of thousands of lights, so yes, it takes weeks. The other decorations the creches and floating lights in the reflecting pools and the lanterns and the wreaths, and the trees in the lobbies) go up just before Thanksgiving and are unavoidably visible, but nothing is lighted, no carols play, until that Friday.
Didn’t they start almost a month ago? I remember seeing the lifts amoungst all the work on the gardening to prepare for the conferences.
Will you post pictures after they are up and lit? 🙂
Sure!
They actually started in September.