Do you have the best Christmas decorations in town? Send us photos and a description for Patch's 2024 holiday tour o' lights.
Patch Staff
LOS ANGELES, CA — Can the holiday lights on your home be seen from space? Does it look like the Las Vegas strip?
If you've spent days or weeks painstakingly hanging strands of lights on your house, palm trees and shrubs, or hauling multiple figurines out to your lawn — Patch wants to hear from you.
Soon, we're compiling a Patch California tour o' lights, where readers can explore the best holiday light displays in the Los Angeles County area.
We aim to have the list up as soon as possible — so email photos and a description of your winter wonderland to Kat Schuster at [email protected].
For many of us, taking in our neighbors’ outdoor holiday lighting displays and other decorative touches is as much a part of the season as exchanging gifts and singing Christmas carols.
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There’s a good reason twinkling holiday lights and colorful displays make us feel good, according to mental health experts.
“It does create that neurological shift that can produce happiness,” Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York’s Adelphi University, told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out ... signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it’s pleasing or not.”
Decorating for the holidays “will spike dopamine, a feel-good hormone,” she said. “For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence. It’s a time of joy.”
That’s why Patch and T-Mobile are partnering to find the lighted homes around Los Angeles to visit.
A few details:
If you’re including a video, please upload it to YouTube and send us the link so we can embed it (make sure it's marked “public”). We also request that the homeowner submit their own yard or a close relative.
We’ll keep updating the list for Los Angeles County throughout December.
Once you've provided the information — and submitted a photo or two or a video (after you uploaded it to YouTube) — you will be entered and included in our roundup.
Pro-tip: If you haven't photographed your light display before, a good time to take photos is at dusk.
IMPORTANT: By submitting a photo, you're giving Patch permission to publish it for this feature and future stories. Photos should be original and taken by the person submitting the photo.
So, be sure to check back for updates and sign up for your local Patch.com newsletters as well!
Please copy and paste the following information into an email, along with photos or videos, and follow these guidelines:
Include the exact address of the yard display and your phone number (not for publication) in case we need to get in touch with you.
Let us know the dates when your holiday display goes live and when it shuts off for the evening.Does your winter wonderland have a name? Be sure to include it, or we can help you make one up.Tell us what makes your twinkly lights special. Will you be planning anything special for your display, like Santa or other holiday characters, FM frequencies for your synchronized light show, walk-throughs, popcorn machines, etc.?
Does your display have a Facebook page or website? Be sure to include the links.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you. Remember, email Kat Schuster ([email protected]) to submit photos of your holiday lights.
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