Head to the 600 block of East Broadway in Bel Air and you can't miss it, a nearly 55-foot tall tree, all decked out for Christmas, towers over the neighborhood.
This is the first year homeowner Tom Brazier has decorated the tree, but it has been a long time coming.
"I've been meaning to ever since I moved in," he said, adding that he moved to that neighborhood about three years ago.
This year he had the time to decorate the massive tree, as well as the money. The twinkling tree is covered with approximately 2,000 LED lights, which cost Brazier around $700 at the end of summer. But for him, it was worth it.
"I just like Christmas," Brazier said, "and I just thought it would be pretty neat to do it."
Hanging the thousands of lights was a process, he added, which involved his brother and niece and several different phases. All in all, Brazier spent between 30 to 40 hours working on the tree, all without ladders or cranes.
He started by boring a hole through a softball, climbing on-to the roof and throwing the ball, which the lights were tied to, on the tree. Then, Brazier said he climbed up the tree with a 10-foot pole and guided the lights while his brother and niece were on the ground wrapping the tree.
Positioning the star, three-feet in diameter, was the tricky part of what he called "somewhat of a process," so Brazier tied it to a 10-foot rod and tied the rod onto the tree.
His desire to celebrate the season through bright decorations started as a child.
"I always enjoyed putting lights up at my parents house when I was a kid and it's followed me throughout the years," he said. "I just like the spirit and it's nice to get responses from people as well."
Since decorating the tree, Brazier has received a myriad of reactions, he said, from people honking as they drive by to others coming up to talk to him. One woman even rang his doorbell at 8:30 one night to thank him, Brazier said, and tell him how much the tree means to the neighborhood.
"That just, you know, it made me feel really good," he said.
If you haven't had a chance to stop by the neighborhood yet, don't worry. Brazier plans to have the tree lit every night throughout the holiday season. The LED lights only use 2.4 watts per string, he added, and powering the whole tree of 30 strings is "like running a 60-watt light bulb."
The strings aren't very noticeable either, so when the time comes to take down the decorations, Brazier plans on removing the star and the first couple tiers of lights, but will probably leave the remaining strings up for next year.
A new feature he may add next year, too, is a train around the bottom, Brazier said, adding that "there's definitely room for improvement."