“I’m new to the area. And I’m very, very much fascinated by the participation in the Christmas holiday season in my neighborhood. All the homes are beautifully decorated, and I thought people ought to know,” she said.

We’re still taking your phone calls on the Post’s CHRISTMAS LIGHTS line — 797-4225. We’ve had close to 60 already.

Here are other recent suggestions:

• Alice Ricks called to compliment the house at 416 E. Horah St.
  
• Margie Shipp recommends people go see Steve and Elaine Reid’s lights at 265 St. Peter’s Church Road, just off U.S. 52, in Gold Hill.

“They have a pretty setting of lights, with a John Deere tractor decorated in the front yard and the house and the garage all decorated, with pretty wreaths on the doorway,” Shipp said.

• An anonymous caller suggested that “anyone who wants to get into the Christmas spirit” ought to go see Parnell and Betty Burch’s decorations at 523 S. Boundary St.
  
• Dennis Davidson called about the property he considers the most “tastefully done and well decorated.”

“I don’t know who they are,” he adds, but the property is located in a sharp curve on N.C. 150 West in between Woodbridge Run development and Sherrills Ford Road.

The owners have a “country- looking farmhouse with candles and bows and a barn with lights that are well done and a horsedrawn carriage in front with a spotlight that shows a silhouette back onto the house.” He adds that the owners decorate appropriately for each season.

• Jim Barber is the latest person to call and recommend seeing the lights at Leonard Motor Co. at 2208 E. Ridge Road and the decorations at Kluttz Automotive at 1414 S. Ridge Ave.
  
• Margie Basinger in Rockwell recommends the work of Cindy and Terry Jones, Margie’s daughter and son, who live at 1203 Lower Stone Church Road.

“It is truly beautiful,” Basinger said. “They even have some of the trees back on the woods lit.”