I walked down a festive block in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, on December 15, 2023. I saw a number of outdoor Christmas decorations. The block inspired me to write a dialogue on how non-Christmas holiday decorations and lawn ornaments can become Christmas with the mere addition of a Santa hat (similarly to how a green vehicle can become a Halloween vehicle with the addition of a witch’s hat). One of the decorations that inspired my Santa hat dialogue was a cardinal in a Santa hat.
Now look in the background of that photo. You see something white, something – perhaps – inflatable. Justina noticed this in my fictional dialogue, but fellow fictional character Justin stopped her from getting into it since he knew that I would cover the inflatable. What were we hiding? See a story in three acts below:
Santa emerging from a chimney!
In full disclosure, I think my photo series – published in chronological order – was probably not in the order the inflatable Santa-chimney designers intended. I think that they would have preferred I showed Santa going into the chimney rather than exiting the chimney. But life does not always work out like that. I had to fumble around to ready the camera app on my phone (default LineageOS app on my Pixel 3a XL, in case you were wondering) and my photo series happened to begin with Santa exiting the chimney instead of going into the chimney. With that being said – it is an interesting Christmas decoration in that depending on when you begin taking photographs of Santa, you can tell a different story. I just happened to tell the story of Santa exiting a home via chimney after leaving Christmas presents.