Photos: Stringing Christmas lights

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Steve Campbell of Gage Tree Service finishes stringing miniature LED Christmas lights at the top of a 30-foot white spruce at a Jewel Lake area home on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.

Much of the holiday lighting spirit in Anchorage can be traced to former mayor Rick Mystrom, who urged citizens in the late 1990s to help turn Anchorage into a "City of Lights and Flowers."

Larry Cash, president and CEO of RIM Architects, said he's had horticulture company Green Connection put off-white lights on his over-60-foot spruce for more than a decade. The tree is the showpiece of the winter landscaping at his Turnagain home.

"Off-white. Always. That's my aesthetic," Cash said.

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