That's Oreta Wright sitting behind those brightly colored tin cans.
She's getting ready to paint the town of Kildare this Christmas.
All by herself, if necessary, but not likely.
Others will join this artist when they hear her call.
"Let's decorate this town from west to the east city limits. No lights. The traditional way. Just use objects we can turn into decorations. I'm working on my tin cans right now. Sweet gum balls are next. What can you add to the decorations?"
Wright's idea is to put those tin cans on tree limbs, use a lot of ribbons and bows, and other found or gathered objects, which can be turned into decorations and place them all along Farm to Market 125 as it passes through town.
Passersby will see a community decorating its whole town for Christmas.
She already has the permission of the property owners. Among these are Charles Pruitt, Jerry Don Whatley, Doug Duncan and William Groce. Hillard Lollar of the Masonic Lodge and Virgil Ragsdale of the Baptist church have agreed, too.
"Debbie Groce has already told me she'll help, especially with those sweet gum balls," Wright said.
She's not sure whether other villagers will join her, but she thinks she has plenty of artistic, homemade objects herself to start the decorating program. That's why she's beginning now, nine months from the Christmas season.
Oreta Wright is known as one who keeps busy. After all, she was a basketball standout for the Kildare Eagles in the year of 1958, the year the school consolidated.
She's funny and has a good spirit about Kildare. She likes to say, "I was in the top 10 of my graduating class. There were nine of us that year."
She is beginning now to enlist the help of everyone, but she adds, "Don't send me any more tin cans. I have plenty."
She has plans that include some students from Linden-Kildare schools who may help dig the holes and place the support rods that will keep Santa Claus, his sleigh, reindeer and other holiday figures upright as they appear along the roadway.
The students will get community involvement credit, she said.
Of course, all of this will take place in the daylight when people will drive though. Electric lights are not anticipated.
Imagine. No electric lights. Will today's Santa Claus be able to find Kildare?
Wright said she's too busy to worry about this.