Island-vibe Santa Claus can be found in Key West in mid-December. In fact, I was expecting more such Santas. Even he needs to vacation, preferably somewhere warm (see #13).

We spent two days walking around Old Town in Key West, which is time enough to cover a fair amount of ground, considering the small size of the place. More conventional St. Nicks were also to be seen, some of them finding their place in a place of business.

Not sure if pink counts as conventional Santa Claus. Usually he’s red, of course, a depiction of jolly old elf owes to Coca-Cola, but pink is pretty close. Anyway, pink Santa had a few fans.

A message for Santa, going for ha ha ha, rather than ho ho ho.

This retailer gets right to the point.

Maybe not the full Griswold, but decked out in quantity.

Trees: evergreen simulations, which seem a little out of place. But why not?

A pair of pink aluminum trees.

We need a revival of the aluminum tree. Not everywhere during the season, but up a notch in the Xmas décor world. Unless that’s already happened. It might have and I wouldn’t have noticed.

Tree in the abstract. Fronting a banyan. That, I think, counts as Key West local.

So does this.

Near dusk the first day was a good time to see lights.

Not Christmas lights, but colorful all the same, and available to take home. We didn’t.

Not specifically Christmas either, but also colorful.

Countering the spirit of Florida cannabis law, if not the letter? Not sure. This truck wasn’t the only one we saw. Didn’t patronize them either. Ho ho ho.