I had intended to follow up the little Christmas tree shot taken earlier this month, with one of the big Christmas tree. However, the storm events delayed being able to take the picture until tonight. Even after the huge windstorms we had the tree looks pretty nice. Only two strings of lights were lost during the last week of wind and rain. There are supposed to be 15 strands of lights, each strand has about 35 lights or about 525 lights total. What I didn’t realize until this year when I saw it up close, the lights are actually full size 25w bulbs. So lighting the whole tree takes over 13 thousand watts. No wonder you can see it 5 miles away!