Even now people wrap houses in displays of light, bring evergreen trees inside and decorate them as if to assist nature to become bright again.
For example, the Vietnamese pine has evolved broad leaves, i.e. flattened needles, to compete for light with evergreen angiosperm trees in tropical forests [ 95].
First they put up polystyrene human skeletons and battery-operated witches, and then, a few weeks later, string colored lights and evergreen swags.
But still, I want one more crisp image, just one, though I know I don't deserve it, I want it to appear the way money once or twice in my life has appeared in my line of vision on the street: some bill, nearly alive, green god, its skin giving off evergreen light, unaccounted for and then immediately mine, no questions asked.
Holiday Tree Lighting and Sing-Along at Conservatory Plaza, celebrating the lighting of an evergreen tree trimmed to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Three Kings and other holidays of the season.
As she followed its search for an opening wide enough to ascend through, she saw a bright, grassy area ahead, a gap of light in the evergreens.
A rooftop turns into a Chinese dragon in profile; whole buildings pile up like soft-serve ice cream; and endless strings of Christmas lights and ornaments, evergreen garlands and red bows are iced with loads of snow.
And she seemed to understand the dramatic use of spectacle: she turned the gray light and the rugged evergreen mountains of the Northwest into a sunless redoubt for the vampire's vulnerable clan.
Some of the Jacquiniella host trees are deciduous and the increased light availability compared with evergreen trees might be beneficial.
