Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I guess it was very creative I could slip this post into @marketfriday hosted by @dswigle I mean it is christmassy, and we all know she loves Christmas, but really it is nothing at all Market related and maybe my brain just isn't up to par today and I cant think of a way to spin it as a market Friday post.

But that's not to bad its just a Friday post and as she is busy and off here for a few days I don't feel to bad sharing these shots today and no taking part in market Friday as I normally do.

These are in a little park not to far from my house here in New Bedford called Clasky Common, which I will share another post of showing whats in this park, but for todays post as the title suggest I am focusing on the Christmas displays that were being setup as I walked through there a few days ago.

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I have driven by this park many times, and always wanted to check it out, but our daughter in Law told us that there have been a few deaths in that park mostly drug over dose or drug related and my wife was not keen on me going there.

But I asked some other locals and they said they only know of two deaths there both overnight and drug over doses and they felt it was safe during the day, so without telling my wife I decided to pop there for a quick walk the other day.

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and there was a team there setting up these Christmas decorations, which was cool to see

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there were people both running the electrical cables, and setting up fences to keep people away from the displays and I guess mess them up.

Here people are very cautious with warning signs, there are signs everywhere, I guess to reduce the chance of being sued if someone hurts themselves, and even here you may note the caution tape on the wires holding this display in place

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There were various displays setup and I thought they were quite cool

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Apparent they do the lightning event on the 4th of December, I hope to try and check it out that night, with crowd there for the lighting my wife may not be so worried about me heading there

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the Paint shop

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Being a techy for many years, I think the work shop was my favorite

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As I understand it nowadays students from the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School which one of our Grandsons goes to electrical students assist with the setting up of the lights, but this plaque indicates a Mr Whitlow for many years led the effort to set up the Christmas lights

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And that’s all folks

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