{"id":34981,"date":"2025-12-19T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34981"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:20:52","slug":"christmas-tree-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34981","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every Christmas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancasterstormers.com\">Lancaster&#8217;s baseball team<\/a> holds something they call &#8220;Christmas Tree Lane,&#8221; a display of decorated trees on the stadium concourse. There&#8217;s also a drive-through Christmas lights display on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went tonight, even though it was bitterly cold and hellishly windy &#8212; temperature of 26 degrees right now, with a wind chill of 16. I wanted to get my picture taken with Santa, but I think, due to the windy and cold conditions, Santa did the wiser thing and stayed at the north pole. I do not blame him.  Tonight is fit for neither man nor beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_195424131.jpg\" alt=\"A Christmas tree decorated like a steam locomotive\" class=\"wp-image-34988\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How could I not like a steam locomotive tree?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_195533398.jpg\" alt=\"A Jack Skellington tree\" class=\"wp-image-34986\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This tree played music, though it was so windy I couldn&#8217;t tell if it was Danny Elfman&#8217;s music from the film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_195632978-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"A group of illuminated trees\" class=\"wp-image-34987\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_201231894-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"A Christmas tree, dressed like a cow!\" class=\"wp-image-34982\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It&#8217;s a moo-cow Christmas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_195925950-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the outfield\" class=\"wp-image-34985\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200028655.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the outfield\" class=\"wp-image-34983\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200509322.jpg\" alt=\"Looking across the infield from the first base concourse\" class=\"wp-image-34984\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200532076.jpg\" alt=\"A LEGO tree! I couldn't not love a LEGO tree!\" class=\"wp-image-34989\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A LEGO tree! I couldn&#8217;t not love a LEGO tree!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200612392.jpg\" alt=\"Trees along the first base concourse\" class=\"wp-image-34990\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200701168.jpg\" alt=\"An Elf tree, based on the Will Ferrell movie\" class=\"wp-image-34991\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251219_200830117.jpg\" alt=\"Looking back at the first base concourse\" class=\"wp-image-34992\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Christmas, Lancaster&#8217;s baseball team holds something they call &#8220;Christmas Tree Lane,&#8221; a display of decorated trees on the stadium concourse. There&#8217;s also a drive-through Christmas lights display on the field. I went tonight, even though it was bitterly cold and hellishly windy &#8212; temperature of 26 degrees right now, with a wind chill of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34981\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Christmas Tree Lane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64,4507,4816],"class_list":["post-34981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-christmas","tag-lancaster","tag-lancaster-barnstormers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}