Don Williams’ annual Christmas light show, called Lake Myra Christmas, is attracting huge numbers of visitors again this year.

The intricate light show is completely computerized but Williams and his neighbors, Billie Craig, Jeremy Smith and Joe Phillips are busy every night keeping an eye on the display and visiting with the steady stream of visitors who stop by.

Don Williams, a good old country boy by anybody’s definition, says he’s glad for the chance to put the show on.

“I’m blessed with the ability to do this, so I’m glad to give it out to people,” Williams said.

The show took about eight weeks to set up. Williams tested the show just before Thanksgiving and on the day after Thanksgiving the show went live.

It’s up nightly between 6-11 p.m. until Dec. 31.

Visitors so far this year have come from as far away as Maui, Hawaii, but Jeremy Smith says he’s met visitors in years past from as far away as the Netherlands.

Williams estimated between 2,000 and 3,000 people stopped on a recent Saturday night to watch the display.

To watch the show in its entirety takes about 30 minutes. Williams choreographed the entire show, listening to the songs and making a decision on how each light should blink on and off depending on the song and the pace of the music.

The show is especially awe-inspiring for those who take the time to stop.

Kathy McCarthy was among the visitors last Wednesday night. She had her 2-year-old granddaughter Faith with her.

“She loves it,” McCarthy said of her granddaughter who was too shy to tell a stranger what she thought.

“I think it’s nice that people have done this. Usually you have to go so far to see something like this and then you have to park and walk and pay,” McCarthy said.

People don’t have to pay for the experience at Lake Myra although Williams does accept donations.

Some of those donations come in forms other than money.

The Enforcers Motorcycle Club donated a sleigh that Williams has incorporated into the display. On Saturday nights, Santa sits in the sleigh and visits with any child brave enough to sit in his lap.

The spectacle of Lake Myra Christmas is made all the more unique because it’s not some big city production sponsored by a parks and recreation department.

Lake Myra Road is a two-lane country road in the middle of Wake County’s fast-disappearing countryside.

Cars on the way to other places wiggle between the people standing on the edge of the pavement watching the display and their cars parked halfway in the road on the other side of the pavement.

But for the people watching the show, they barely notice the cars slipping past.

The Lake Myra Christmas has their rapt attention.