At least they tried

At various times friends and family who are not downtown residents have asked why Phoenix doesn't do more in the way of Christmas decorations.  The city probably doesn't do much due to a lack of funding, preferring to leave the decorations to businesses like the downtown Hyatt and its huge Christmas light display or neighborhood organizations like Willo and Roosevelt and their Christmas Eve luminarias.  But it was nice to see the downtown core try to get in on the act.  This year the Downtown Phoenix Partnership set out luminarias along Adams Street between Second Street and First Avenue.  I happened to cruise along the street around 7:30 p.m. and didn't see anybody walking around checking out the luminarias, but it was a good try by the DPP to get something started.  Perhaps with more residents in the downtown core at the Cityscape apartments and with more publicity, downtown Phoenix's luminarias can become a little Christmas tradition.