Maybe it doesn't qualify for Viewing With Alarm. I mean, when I was a kid, you decorated for Christmas, and that was it. We had a Santa face on the door, some lights in the boxwood hedge, and luminarias - paper bags weighted down with sand and holding candles. Ah, but now it seems like every couple of months, your good, self-respecting householders are out there decorating for this or that. At Halloween, there were goblins, ghosts and witches galore - and little miniature pumpkin lights.
Easter brings bunnies and colored eggs.
If this is not an Ominous Portent, it's at the very least pretty darned puzzling. Perhaps some of you can make sense out of all this. I'm just going to meditate on it for a while - a long while. Then I'm going to go out lay in some supples. All rights reserved.