AUBURN – The only lights on Karen and Jamie Loggins’ Vista Drive lawn Wednesday night were illuminating the couple’s extra large American flag.

A car turned into the road and drove slowly past, turned around and left the neighborhood. The driver, Jamie Loggins speculated, was probably looking for the Christmas display of dancing lights set to music. It isn’t there. And Loggins isn’t sure whether there will be lights this year.

Loggins said Wednesday his neighbors on this quiet cul-de-sac have been understanding about the traffic the Christmas display generates, but after six years “it might be time to take a break.”

For the past two years, the couple – with help from friends and family – have set up an extraordinary light display, turning it on the first week of December. They brought this tradition to Auburn when they moved here, having done the same thing in former homes in the Midwest and California the previous four years.

The couple use software to choreograph the lights and music, make their own wooden shapes defined by blinking lights, make their own extension cords to save money, and string something close to 130,000 lights on their lawn, in trees and on their rooftop.

The display draws thousands of people packed in cars, tuning their radios to pick up the spirited music coordinated to the light show.

It is, some have said, the best Christmas light display in the area. The rapidly blinking lights create a sense of animation, riveting the attention of drivers and their passengers.

Although most of the drivers are respectful, there have been a couple of problems reported, including a temporary shut-down in 2006 after a motorist threatened to run over Val Nelson, Loggins’ mother, who was directing traffic and had helped set up the display. Last year, police were called to settle an argument in front of the house, and had arranged for traffic control during the show hours of 5 to 8 p.m. to make sure traffic kept moving and neighbors could pull into their driveways.

Loggins acknowledged there “certainly are concerns” with traffic control and keeping the peace, but he’s talked with Auburn Police Department officials a couple of times this year and believes a meeting with police, himself and his neighbors will ease those concerns.

That meeting will be scheduled if the Logginses decide to move forward with their show.

Jamie Loggins, a surgeon with a busy bariatric practice at Central Maine Medical Center, has been working on the light and sound show, but simply hasn’t found the time to set it up. It wasn’t the plan, months ago, to forgo the show, he said, but it’s been a busy fall.

“Thanksgiving was here before we knew it,” he said. He didn’t even find the time to set up Halloween decorations. Loggins said he and his wife intend to work on the display over the weekend and then decide whether to set it up.

That work will include adding some elements to the software to augment last year’s display and hauling the materials out of the staging area in their garage.

If that work isn’t finished this weekend, it might be difficult to get it done in enough time to make it worthwhile.

For information about when, or if, the display will be offered this year, go to auburnlights.com.