nice to have lights for the porch our outside....in community of outdoor living from oct 1 to April 1 there are tons of lights in yards...we have a sting on the wall that borders one side of the pool....the out door living space has lights along the edge, inside of roof...and because i MISS my oregon evergreens, wife lets me turn them on year round....those tall Christmas tree evergreens...at one time had a full tree...wife said,,,just at christmas....and then every lot in our massive county complex has mexican wrought iron lights that are on a timer, postioned on the mexican brick walls that line the edges of the road in front of the lot. no sidewalks just brick walls....for every lot. so our streets our illuminated. And Christmas....on my ...bored poor senior citizens really put up the lights...won't light up their palm trees, but come christmas...a many commercial airlline pilot confused as they make their approach over our hood. .