For the past decade from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Diamond Point Road transforms into “Holiday Lane.”

Every year, rain, snow, wind or sun, residents of the Diamond Point Road community volunteer to hang large, glistening and colorful ornaments from the trees and shrubs bordering Diamond Point Road just east of Sequim.

Bringing about a sense of the holidays for every passerby to enjoy takes about 20-35 community volunteers’ time and energy to evenly space about 1,000 ornaments the full length of the road, said Marty Hoffman, Holiday Lane organizer or better known as “Chief Forest Elf.”

“We’re just very community-oriented here,” he said. “This year we had 34 dedicated individuals hang the ornaments.”

By Saturday, Jan. 9, more than 20 volunteers were back at it, taking down ornaments and organizing them for the 2016 holiday season.

Founders of Holiday Lane Beverly and Wallace Teal were inspired to start the tradition after they encountered a similar road, fully adorned with ornaments in the “middle of nowhere” while driving through New Mexico, Wallace Teal said.

“It was just so cool and such a surprise,” he said.

Wanting to instill that same sense of surprise and awe to their community, the Teals began decorating Diamond Point Road for the holidays in 2006. Two years later the Teals began to snowbird elsewhere and Hoffman took over spearheading the annual tradition.

“It has grown over the years in number of decorations and volunteers,” Hoffman said.

Three “key community individuals” Hoffman attributes the growing success of Holiday Lane to are Marydee Countryman with the Diamond Point fire station, Larry Bennett with Western Cable Service and Ken Bridges with Diamond Point Storage.

Like the past 10 years, come the Saturday before Thanksgiving Hoffman and fellow volunteers plan to transition Diamond Point Road from a simple country road to the cheerful and spirited Holiday Lane many have come to enjoy.