Hampden Hon! Talk about lights!! What a town!

One of my readers reminded me that Hampden in Baltimore has lots of flaminos and lights. After a visit to the Walters Museum of Art we decided to go find the street I've heard about for years. We've lived here 20 years and this is our first visit and we LIKEE! The house on the left has a lighted scrolling sign that says they have been doing the lights thing here for 47 years! Strings of lights cross the street to the houses on the other side. Each house has it's own agenda...

Now, this house, 2nd on the row, invites visitors to go up the stairs to see the wonder of moving trains on the porch and since the door is open to the residents watching tv, one can look into their living room and see the  train moving around their ceiling circling their personal tree! This one is AWESOME up close.

Keep going and see the vinyl records house! A tree of records and a Creche of records. Look closely. Joseph, Mary and Jesus

Or would you prefer a tree made of hubcaps?

or a tree next door made by a working artist who uses food containers to create his creatures... such as Bohemian Beer cans, Old Bay Spice boxes and wrenches, bike gears, whatever.
He had a holder with his business cards next to his yard.

uh oh!!

A pile up on -83!

Hate a traffic snarl, don't you?

Guess this guy saw the worst of it, or it's a bear skin rug after Christmas proper. We visited a few days after Christmas so not all homes were in top flash.

Nancy says inflatables are kind of cheating...

But check out gumby Santa making an arch over this stairway!! This yard just was FULL of inflatables.

So much hot air it reminded one we live near the home of politics! Except this is Baltimore, home of weird fun!
We weren't alone this night, even in the rain, families were posing with their favorite house, kids and adults under umbrellas.

Hey, no back biting!!

SPCA pet love house is coming up!

Love the balcony! And the pictures of real pets waiting for their forever homes!
This street is awesome but there were lots of cool lights around the 'hood and we plan to return in the Spring to have a bite at an outdoor cafe and walk around looking at a cool town. 

Want to see more lights?? Laugh a bit more at the silliness?? Keep scrolling down to the week of posts y'all!

Love LeeAnna