Author Archives: James

Welcome to the 2024 season of Blue Moon Lights! This years display is go! The 2024 Display contains 8978 individually controllable pixels (light bulbs), an increase of 1460 over last year. Each bulb can be controlled seperately to set the … Continue reading →

Welcome to the 2023 season of Blue Moon Lights! This years display is ready to go! The 2023 Display contains 7518 individually controllable pixels (light bulbs). Each bulb can be controlled seperately to set the color displayed. Combined with the … Continue reading →

So what does it take to create a show like this? Good question. First off, lots of patience. All the props (snowflakes, trees, candy canes, etc) had to have all the light bulbs (pixels) pushed into place. Most of this … Continue reading →

The physical setup of the lights is now complete for the 2023 season. Looking at the extended forcast, today was the day to do the setup. Waiting any longer and I’d have to don the hat and gloves (which would … Continue reading →

Won’t be long now, and it will be time to get everything placed out into the yard, programmed, and running. For 2023, the changes to the setup are less obvious than in the past. The one (hopefully) not noticable change … Continue reading →

Noticed last night one of the virtical strips was “stuck” on some red glow and not doing what it should. Not sure what happened, will have to wait until it comes down for more testing. Maybe a squirrel nicked the … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the first nice snowfall since the display went up (had one prior to setup, was panicing that I might have to shovel off the grass to setup). Noticed an issue on the mega-tree that night. Upon inspection this … Continue reading →

Well, amazingly Mother Natrue cooperated and gave us a VERY warm day today. All the display elements are now in place and the show is go! Will work on getting videos of this years songs up as soon as I … Continue reading →

Less than 2 weeks to go, and the weather forcast between now and the start of the show is, well, less than awesome. Looks like I’m either going to be freezing cold putting out the rest of the display in … Continue reading →

Welcome to the 2022 season of Blue Moon Lights! Tune your radio to 93.5 FM when at the house to hear the music. This year, the display continues to expand. Planned additions include: For those that like numbers, there planned … Continue reading →