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Here's my Christmas card to you all. Have a good holiday and I hope Santa brings you lots of lenses :-)
Brilliant Lights of Christmas projected onto the St Mary's Cathedral facade in Sydney.
Already the amazing light projections which turn the Cathedral facade into a Christmas display of coloured wreaths and artwork under the theme of Unity had attracted thousands of people all over the world.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Have a happy and safe holiday, enjoy the festive season.
Thanks for all your support through the year and for sharing your photos!
(better view in lightbox)
December 20, 2020
Green Red and White work boats float on calm water in Town Cove.
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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From another Christmas without snow (as most usual here in western Norway).
We had a really cosy Christmas Eve last night, and now enjoy the silence of Christmas Day. We enjoy the day by ourselves at home, making a delicious Christmas dinner.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Here is a Christmas-style living room, with the crackling fireplace, the Christmas tree, the decorated coffee table and the gifts under the tree. Santa looks out of the window ... I think he forgot his bag on the sofa! The cat has woken up and is looking at him from the window. Merry Christmas everyone!
Last night me and a couple friends drove out to Spruce Meadows around 9 pm to take a lovely stroll and check out the amazing Christmas Lights on display; everywhere you walked there were beautifully lit up Christmas trees and wonderful light displays!
It was a cold, cold night but we walked briskly and drank plenty of hot chocolate, so it was a really nice way to take my mind off the stresses of yesterday (Beefy is calmly awaiting his results; the saddest thing about the whole situation is that is in no pain and is still acting completely normally, he just has that big lump....it's so sad...) and get myself ready to sleep when I got back home.
Have a wonderful Saturday, my friends, and please keep Beefy in your thoughts and prayers!
Käthe Wohlfahrt, Bruges — one of the Belgian outposts of the renowned German Christmas boutique founded in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the 1960s. The company began as a small family business selling handmade wooden ornaments and music boxes and grew into Europe’s most famous purveyor of traditional German Christmas folklore: nutcrackers, Räuchermännchen (incense smokers), Schwibbögen (arched candle pyramids), and carved miniatures from the Erzgebirge. Their shops—always lavishly decorated—function as year-round Christmas museums, preserving and exporting a distinctly Franconian/Thuringian craft tradition revived after World War II.
German Christmas craft culture itself draws on several intertwined historical strands: medieval guild carving in Saxony; 17th-century mining-town folk art in the Ore Mountains (where miners carved wooden figures during the long dark winters); the 19th-century Biedermeier domestic ideal that elevated the decorated Christmas tree; and the early-20th-century rediscovery of regional handcrafts during the Heimatkunst movement. Käthe Wohlfahrt’s shops present these traditions in curated, idealized form—part nostalgia, part preservation, part commercial mythology—offering a pan-German Christmas aesthetic that feels timeless even though it was consolidated only in the mid-20th century.
On the orange bows
The orange bows on the ornaments in the right-hand window are not part of traditional German Christmas iconography. In this context they likely signal Dutch tourist appeal, since Bruges attracts large numbers of Dutch visitors and orange is the Netherlands’ national color (House of Orange-Nassau). Käthe Wohlfahrt’s satellite shops often tailor small portions of their display to local or regional tastes, and the orange details appear to be a commercial nod to Dutch shoppers—an accent of cheerful, non-liturgical color that doesn’t conflict with the overall Christmas palette. They do not signify a liturgical season, political movement, or historical Flemish tradition.
My babies and I would like to wish all my Flickr friends a very Merry Christmas and a safe and extra happy New Year.
Thanks to Rubyblossom for the Texture.
The Babe in Bethlehem's manager laid, In humble form so low; By wondering angels is survey'd,Thro', all_His scenes of woe.
A BEAUTIFUL MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR YOU ALL IS WISHED
The Christmas tree is up at ESA’s ESTEC technical heart in the Netherlands, seen here reflected in the main mirror of a tenth scale model of the NASA-ESA-CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
The Christmas tree’s lights will have taken about 15 billionths of a second to travel to this multi-segment mirror, but the actual JWST’s 6.5 m mirror will observe cosmic sights from far further away.
Scheduled for launch by Ariane 5 in 2021, JWST is designed to collect almost six times more light than the current Hubble Space Telescope, peering back in infrared to the era of the first galaxies in the Universe and hunting out planets around other stars.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
Some may call it a super-sized ornament or a giant children’s toy, but what really is that wooden, spinning thing in the middle of Marktplatz?
What is it? The 26-foot, carousel-like structure is called a Weihnachtspyramide, or Christmas Pyramid. These wooden pyramids are a traditional German decoration dating back to the 16th century. It is an art form that many believe evolved into our current custom of a Christmas tree.
Where did it come from? Christmas pyramids have their roots in the German Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), a silver ore mining region in the eastern part of German. When the mines began to close, the manufacture of wooden toys became a newfound source of income.
What is it for? Woodworkers would use their moving artwork to capture the attention of children and teach them Bible stories. The artisans would create figurines depicting each part of a story and arrange them in order on the tiers of the pyramid. Typically Christmas pyramids tell the Nativity story of Jesus’ birth and include angels blowing their trumpets, shepherds visiting the stable and magi bringing gifts.
While still a storytelling form of art, Christmas pyramids serve a mainly decorative purpose today. Most are table-top size and used in homes as a holiday decoration—filling children and adults alike with holiday cheer as lighted candles spin the windmill round and round.
Where you can find in Fredericksburg: Der Alte Fritz, Kuckucks Nest and The Grasshopper and Wild Honey.
Fredericksburg’s Christmas pyramid, handcrafted in Germany, was first displayed at Marktplatz during the 2009 holiday season. It is illuminated each year on the Friday evening following Thanksgiving, kicking off the Christmas season in Fredericksburg, and remaining lit through Epiphany, the first week of January.
Happy December. We are back home. We had a wonderful time in Fredericksburg.
Best viewed large.
Happy Christmas Eve!
Photographed in the diorama with furnishings, accent pieces and Christmas Tree by Ken Haseltine of the retired Regent Miniatures. 1/6 Scale Flickering Fire Blocks by Playscale Furnishings in Australia on Etsy at : www.etsy.com/shop/PlayscaleFurnishings.
Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
Wishing everyone that their Christmas wishes should come true. Eva is wishing for the gingerbread cookies being rolled out on the counter.
This of course was before the cookies were iced by my 4 year old son, who came down with rip roaring gastroenteritis a few hours later. The cookies are now a little less desirable.
The Librarie Polonaise (Polish Bookshop) on Blvd Saint-Germain in Paris has a fabulous Christmas window display of colourful castles. Here, the buildings across the road are reflected in the bookshop window. Paris, December 07. No computer overlays here - just the actual window reflections. This picture made Explore.
Today they turned the Christmas lights on at the Legislature. We took the dog and the tripod and got a few shots. These are ice sculptures in front of the Legislature
This Christmas lights zoom shot is just for fun. I caught this shot at the Mormon Temple Christmas exhibit just outside Washington, DC. I have driven by the temple lots of times, but this is the first time I stopped for photos. Very colorful!
Christmas on a Great Street, Orchard, Singapore
View from Wheelock Place
Christmas 2012
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Have a festive Christmas at the world famous Orchard Road.
Revel in one of the biggest holiday seasons of the year at the world-famous shopping district Orchard Road. The glitzy street has been ranked among the top 10 in Frommers World’s Best Holiday Lights: 10 Decorated Cities and Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Christmas Markets of the World. The celebration in Singapore features shopping promotions and festivities with daily lucky draws and prizes.
This Christmas, find out why the world-famous Orchard Road was recently ranked the most beautiful avenue in the world by French agency Presence. The 2.2km stretch of malls will be donned in spectacular lights, a visual spectacle that has made it to prestigious lists such as Frommers' World's Best Holiday Lights 2010 and the Lonely Planet's Top 10 Christmas Markets of the World 2011, as well as garnered awards such as the International Downtown Association Merit Achievement Award 2012.
Don't miss this opportunity to see the malls competing against each other in Orchard Road's annual Best Dressed Building contest, leading up to the Switch-on Ceremony on November 17, to be officially launched by Singapore's President Dr. Tony Tan at ION Orchard. For a closer view of the lights and décor, hop on the HiPPO open-top bus tours and enjoy a full sensory experience of Christmas in Singapore’s most famous district.
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Branden's children holding their gifts from our Norwegian cousins for Christmas 2004.
They were living at Fort Knox, KY.
I went out to bring the paper in this morning and witnessed this. What a great way to start Christmas Day.
Have a great Christmas.
Taken at around 7AM with a Canon 85mm f/1.8 USM lens.
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