It's the most ameboid time of the year
"Floating amoebas!"
That was the cry in the van the other night as we drove back from a shopping excursion in Hyannis.
Some years ago, Bonnie remarked that deciduous trees and bushes on people's lawns that have been outfitted with holiday lights look not so much like trees but more like giant, floating electric amoebas, vaguely amorphous and somewhat sinister. Ever since then, we and our kids yell "floating amoebas" whenever we see them drift by the windows.
Floating amoebas come in all shapes and sizes -- round, oval, spiral, small, gigantic. And they come in all sorts of colors -- white, blue, red and green, yellow.
We especially like it when someone has meticulously wrapped lights around the trunk and limbs of a gnarled old tree. "Devil claw!" is the refrain for those.