The fire department of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin decorated one of their trucks with Christmas lights. It plays “Wizards in Winter” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The lights are synchronized with the music.

via The Presurfer

Previously: Christmas Light Hero

As winter begins, festivals of light flicker across the globe.  From the meticulous and pretty to dazzlingly overloaded, light displays are a testament to shiny visions of high electric bills to come.  Oddee takes a look at some doozies, including the above photo taken at Seoul Plaza, Seoul, South Korea (from Carpe Feline‘s Flickr stream).

Link.  (Happy next couple of days… whatever your faith, I hope the light shines brightly on you, Neatoreaders!)

The Daily Dozen feature on National Geographic, edited by photo editor Susan Welchman, is a treasure trove of neat "Your Shots" photos submitted by the magazine’s readers (a selection of which will actually appear on the magazine itself – talk about awesome!).

I particularly like this one, submitted by James Snyder who wrote:

This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.

Link to the Daily Dozen (this particular shot by James appeared on the April – Week 1 section)