While driving up 9th Street tonight I noticed a little hint of color to the state capitol building. Eager as I am for the Christmas mood to permeate our fair cities, I had hoped that the capitol’s Christmas window scheme would appear the day after Thanksgiving. When that hope was unanswered, I figured December 1st would be a likely day for some guy to pull the red and green shades down in certain windows and the stars atop the building to be lit. Maybe it’ll happen earlier.

As you can see in these photos, some of the windows in the front and back of the capitol building have their Christmas colors already. Does that mean that someone was going from floor to floor, pulling the required shades to form the Christmas tree in the capitol windows? I sure hope so. If it isn’t in progress now, I presume the day is just around the corner.