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Toledo's Twinkling 12 -- and then some -- winners - Friday night, the city of Toledo honored the dozen recipients of its Twinkling 12 residential holiday lighting/decorating contest (two from each city council district). There were also 15 honorable mentions.

The addresses are listed at the link above, so you can take a driving Christmas lights Toledo tour.

The Maumee Valley Growers (one of my clients) donated a set of poinsettias and wreaths to each of the 12, so I attended the ceremony at One Gov't Center.

Like a lot of us regarding our homes, these people have a passion for their respective homes. In these cases, that passion involves a Christmas display. One person I talked with knew the number of lights (like 2300) on his tallest tree. Another family decorates its home in memory of a family member.

Some images of these houses are already on the city of Toledo site. I believe more will be added.

The three MVG members who contributed the wreaths and poinsettias were:
> Barrow’s Greenhouse,
> Ohlman Farm & Greenhouse, and
> Tom Strain & Sons & Daughter Too.

-- Mike
posted by miked918 to entertainment at 10:15 A.M. EST     (10 Comments)

Comments ...

Carty needs to hire someone to redo/maintain their website. That thing is awful.

But back to the topic at hand. Awesome looking houses. I drive my step-son around at night sometimes and we look at Christmas lights. I'll have to maybe drive by some of these.
posted by ToledoPlusPlus at 11:22 A.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

Carty needs to hire someone to redo/maintain their website. That thing is awful.

I agree which goes same for this website as well. It's all green, grey & black in here perhaps using pictures and variety of colors would ease it up on my eyes.
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 12:46 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

Which one is funded by taxpayer dollars?

- City of Toledo website

- or ToledoTalk.com

HHT, if you and your friends fork over some cash, I'll get someone to redesign the site, and I'll use your leftover money to buy me a fur coat.

This site used to be sort of midnight blue and gold like Lewiki in honor of UT, but since I'm an OU grad, I switched to green and white.

I like how the original Netscape browser defaulted the background color of web pages to gray. I like shades of gray, which are much easier on my eyes than the harshness of an all-white background. Lots of text on an all-white background requires sunglasses.

Note the comfortable colors used at MetaFilter.com and its sister sites:
- Ask MetaFilter
- MetaFilter Projects
- MeFi Music
- MetaTalk

Would light gray text on a dark background be better? HHT, you complain, but you don't give an example website of what you like in a design. What about the designs of community sites like Slashdot or digg or Gather or Newsvine? I like reddit's design.

Pictures? Get yourself a flickr or photobucket account, upload your photos there, and link to them from here like I do.


posted by jr at 01:32 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

jr: If you want to really tear your hair out, look what Plime did. Literally every other page can have a different color scheme. :)
posted by TheTalentedMrC at 01:39 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

Love the green and white. Go Cats!
posted by fish4 at 03:28 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

"Would light gray text on a dark background be better?"
As a person with major eye problems I would plead with you to please not make the site a dark background with light text as it causes problems with my eyes when I have to read a site like that for more than a few seconds.

As to the City's site, it is rather sad looking, you'd think they'd have at least taken the time to make it look professional rather than like something an elementary student put together ;-)

But the lights are awesome, too bad the county didn't also do something like this! I love riding in the car at night this time of year!
posted by justsimplyholly at 03:52 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 18, 2006     #

jr, how much money are you looking for? I'd prefer a "border" box around for each thread topic and then you have them highlighted in varities of colors. Would love if you add and make available of avatars to all of us.
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 01:34 P.M. EST on Tue Dec 19, 2006     #

Am I missing something? My tt screen doesn't have any green....except for jr's Christmas greeting in green and red...

And I like the look and format. Classically simple, easy to read and navigate...
posted by MaggieThurber at 09:29 P.M. EST on Tue Dec 19, 2006     #

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


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posted by Darkseid at 06:40 A.M. EST on Wed Dec 20, 2006     #

Bump-just want to make sure folks see it-also puttin' my 2 centavos in, I like the board colors the way it is, although I might be open to slight changes. But NO light writing on a black background, please!! Hurts my old eyes.
posted by Darkseid at 03:06 A.M. EST on Thu Dec 21, 2006     #

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