This is how Santa Fe does Christmas Eve. Canyon Road has lots of old adobe houses and "compounds" (multiple houses with a common lane entrance). Most are now art galleries and restaurants. The lights are called farolitos and are paper bags weighed down with sand and lit with candles. They line the walkways and walls and everyone walks the streets singing Christmas carols. Every few hundred yards you'll find a little bonfire of pinon wood to warm you. (And it smells wonderful.)
Down one little alley we came across a crowd gathered around a resident in a Santa suit who set up this little train display in his courtyard. It was a big hit!
(And no, that's not me singing badly in the background.)
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