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Dark comes early this time of year in Tupper Lake, a mountain village in northern New York not far from the Canadian border.
But as we set off across a snow-covered bridge, the path is luminous, decked in glittering white bulbs.
"It's pretty and magical and there are pools of light reflecting down on the snow," says my friend Catherine Seidenberg, who bundled up to make the walk with me.
The path follows the edge of a frozen pond into shadowy forest. There among towering white pines we find luminous washes of yellow, rose and silver.
When you think holiday lights, that usually means a neighbor's house lit up like a cruise ship, or a downtown street transformed by color.