Christmas

 

2011: Christmas

It is nearly time for Christmas and everything seems ready in Switzerland

2013: Christmas in the Forest

but I think our forest friends have simpler fun and the bear family are just going to snooze through it all

2013: Christmas Night

The reindeer will be busy

2013: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

especially Rudolph with his ♪nose so bright♪ leading Santa's sleigh.

2009: Christmas - Angel by William Morris

Have a Blessed Christmas

Sunday Stamps is looking forward to -  Christmas - See It On A Postcard

Putting on the Style

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is Keeping Warm this winter -

It is forecast for the temperature to dip this weekend, A card from the last century when the winters were colder and furs were the warm clothing of choice, with and without heads . The card sends "A Kindly Wish. - Fortune favour you that so you may /Have all that gladdens life this Christmas Day" Postcard sent on 24 December 1920

The aunties are keeping warm inside.

Glowing Red

 

1998: Birds

Its that time of the year, enter the robin

1965: Songbirds

or maybe a bullfinch

and a rock thrush.  I wonder where they live?

2011: The Happiness Tree

In a Happiness Tree of course.

1973: Copernicus

For more happiness look to the skies and December's colourful Geminid shooting stars.

Sunday Stamps theme this week - Red - See It On A Postcard

Animals in Snow

 See It on a Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt featuring Animals in Snow

 Battling the storm - "Rescuing a calf, Pitchfork Rance Wyoming, 1936". Lucky day for the calf, it gets a ride home.

Grey Wolves have a whole pack to look after each other.

Some Christmas elves from Inge Löök and a friendly fox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glass

 

1987: Sir Isak Newton

A flask of water refracting light

1993: Christmas

St Aubin on the Hill church whose light shines through the stained glass windows.

These musical angels were created by Henry Bosdet. There are three of his windows in the church.

Sunday Stamps theme -glass - See It On A Postcard

Let It Snow

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is looking out for snow

Japanese artists are fond of snowy scenes and here the card shows a detail of a  Utagawa Kunisada woodcut showing 'Kabuki actors on a bridge in winter' (1854).

Makrinitsa,Thessaly,Greece

The village of Makrinitsa is built on the slopes Mount Pelion above the port city of Velos so there will be great views of Volos and the Pagasetic Gulf from here.  As can be imagined the area is a popular skiing destination. A beautiful area of Greece in both winter and summer

so which would you choose?

City Scenes

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is taking a look at multi-views

After the city's millennium the slogan "Wroclaw - The Meeting Place" started to be used in all sorts of promotional material, and of course postcards.  I think the invention of the slogan must derive from the reason the city was founded here by the Oder River, it was the meeting point of two trade routes.

The card shows Top - The City Hall, The Centennial Hall and the tenements Hansel and Gretel the bottom photos The Market Square, the Raclawice Panorama which houses the cycloramic painting of the Battle of Raclawice and for some relaxing downtime The Japanese Garden

The oldest town in Finland and once its capital - Turku. Located on the south west corner of Finland by the Aura River which makes its way through Turku and out into the Baltic Sea.

As a contrast a small place in the northern England formed on farming and making woolen garments.  Today it is popular for walkers of the Howgill Fells and book lovers (it is England's official Book Town).

The car shows Weavers Yard, Main Street, and the 12th century Parish Church of St Andrews