Year-Round Decorative Lights With Selectable Color Schemes And Associated Methods

A year-round decorative lighting apparatus, comprising:

• a structure;
• at least three independently-controlled lines carried on the structure;
• the at least three independently-controlled lines including:
• a first independently-controlled line which provides for an illumination of a first plurality of lights with a first color;
• a second independently-controlled line which provides for an illumination of a second plurality of lights with a second color;
• a third independently-controlled line which provides for an illumination of a third plurality of lights with a third color;
• a housing which carries a decorating selector to provide a plurality of user-selectable switch settings;
• a controller to control the illumination of a different holiday color scheme in the lights for each user-selectable switch setting;
• the different holiday color schemes comprising:
• a New Year's holiday color scheme consisting of the color white;
• a Christmas holiday color scheme comprising the colors red and green which are simultaneously illuminated in the decorative lighting apparatus;
• a Valentine's holiday color scheme comprising the color red;
• and
• a St. Patrick's Day holiday color scheme comprising the color green.

A method of providing operation for a decorative lighting strand comprising the acts of:

• providing for a selective illumination of two or more light colors in the decorative lighting strand in accordance with a first country flag color scheme, in response to a first user switch setting of the decorative lighting strand;
• providing for a selective illumination of two or more light colors in the decorative lighting strand in accordance with a second country flag color scheme, in response to a second user switch setting of the decorative lighting strand;
• and
• providing for a selective illumination of two or more light colors in the decorative lighting strand in accordance with a third country flag color scheme, in response to a third user switch setting of the decorative lighting strand.