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DSC_0098At least through Disney magic at the Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights at Walt Disney World.     The Streets of America at the Disney Hollywood Studios are lined with over five million lights that originally came from the Osborne family in Little Rock, Arkansas and was moved to Walt Disney World in 1995 after it apparently became a little overwhelming for their neighbors.  Everything is covered with lights from the buildings to the picnic tables and bicycles.

BicyclesDisney has added its own touches to the display, including snow falling gently on the guests as they walk through the lighted streets.   Every ten minutes, the lights dance to a different holiday song.   Carey and I look forward to this every year on our November trip, and as many times as we have seen it, we still are moved by the music, the lights and the pure joy of  seeing the faces of young and old alike, reaching for snowflakes, transformed by the wonder of this magical world.

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Quote of the Moment:

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
by Sherwood Anderson Winesburg Ohio