The Downtown Corvallis Association or whoever it is has replaced the light-up toy soldiers and wrapped gifts they used to hang from lampposts this time of year with big white snowflakes.
They're pretty enough, in a slick, sterile sort of way. Which is not always a bad thing: there is a place for sterile beauty in the world, just as there is for sterile people (some of the nicest people I know never had any children).
They remind me of the ads I used to see in the Wards catalog for a complete set of blue ornaments and blue lights to hang on your flocked artificial Christmas tree. Those were nice, too, in their own way, and I actually did admire them.
I just never wanted to have such a thing in my own living room.
I wonder what they did with the toy soldiers, though?
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "To know the fate of a superfluous soldier, ask Tommy Atkins."\\
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