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About as festive as I get, a Christmas funfair in Berlin as seen from the revolving restaurant half way up the TV tower
Photos from the desert table, from my Sunday Brunch at the Explorer Hotel (Yellowknife). No I did not try all of them, but what I did try was delicious!
99.2% Full Moon on Christmas Eve- Northern Hemisphere. I'd been hoping to get the ISS pass but instead I got this when the clouds cleared.
1. christmas shelves, 2. Decorated Snowflake Cookies, 3. This year....., 4. pink snowflake, 5. House Ornaments, 6. Vintage christmas balls, 7. wreath for a friend, 8. Christmas House, 9. Target Tuesday: Holiday Colors, 10. Fabbbbulous vintage ornament wreath, 11. Vintage Holiday , 12. The Tree's Up, 13. Bottlebrush Trees, 14. feeling festive, 15. all stitched!, 16. Happy Dolly Christmas tree
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Holly is an ancient plant and there is an abundance of folklore about Christmas Holly. The glossy, spiny, green leaves and bright, scarlet berries of the Ilex Aquifolium look joyful at this time of year and epitomize the Christmas colours we know and love. In olden days people would hang it outside their homes for good luck but it was in Victorian times when the holly really began to be utilised as decoration within people’s houses. At that time families really did ‘deck the halls with boughs of holly’. Even now, just a sprig of holly on the table or mantlepiece can really add a festive, finishing touch in the home. It is not surprising, with its prickly leaves, that holly symbolized ‘protection’. Besides Christmas decoration for the home, people have often planted it outside their doors or gateways to offer protection from harm. During November the holly really comes into its own in the woodland. While all the deciduous trees are shedding their leaves, the holly offers protection for the rabbits, foxes, deer and small birds. A sprig of holly, if it offers protection, will also bring good fortune. But beware, that fortune can quickly turn to bad if you do not follow Christmas tradition. Superstition says that the decorations must be taken down by twelfth night (6th January). Otherwise you will have bad luck or even visits from witches.
A moist tart full of festive fruit and topped with a light sponge. Encased in a crisp buttery pastry.
So this is our christmas tree! It sits right opposite the sofa in the other room, so you can see right through the house to it. It's really quite nice, and framed nicely by the curtains to the back garden I think. Shame we're gonna have to take it down this week. Was nice to look at for a while!
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A liturgical feast central to Christianity, preparation for Christmas begins on the First Sunday of Advent and it is followed by Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season surrounding it.
There are different hypotheses regarding the date of Jesus's birth. In the early fourth century, the church fixed the date as December 25, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar. It is nine months after Annunciation on March 25, also the Roman date of the spring equinox. Most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the civil calendars used in countries throughout the world. However, part of the Eastern Christian Churches celebrate Christmas on December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in the Gregorian calendar. For Christians, believing that God came into the world in the form of man to atone for the sins of humanity rather than knowing Jesus's exact birth date is considered to be the primary purpose of celebrating Christmas.
I want to wish everyone on flickr a Merry Christmas... since I've been doing everything from my android. I seem to leave my account without maintaining it much. hopefully that will change in the upcoming year... I do occasionally fly thru here & visit your sites. I definite appreciate your coming around here from time to time.
Best wishes for a very happy 2014. :)
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I visited Strasbourg, capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. I've taken some beautiful photos of this wonderful city!
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A Christmas Photo Shoot with 8 cousins, a stack of gear, a load of props & 2 photographers (EpicDi & myself).
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From a commission to do the poster and flyers for a Christmas market with an ice rink as the main attraction.
I contacted an ex-skating champion, who kindly lent us these.
They are the type called, in Holland, Belgium and Germany, 'NOREN' (meaning of Norway).
They are long and very flat and are used for speed and long distance.
The short, higher ones are for hockey and very high for figure skating
This was one of the many ideas I had.
The proper shoot was done on the technical (Horseman) camera, on transparency film, 4x5".
I've always liked this one.
Graduated bg, I have great fake snow, looks more real than the real stuff.
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Christmas Eve Fireworks are as regular an event as we we can make them. Some years they are more extensive than others, but we generally manage at least a quick round of fire & sparks.
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During our recent Christmas trip, we stayed at both Wilderness Lodge and Animal Kingdom Lodge. I believe Wilderness Lodge is the best place to stay during the holidays, whereas Sarah believes Animal Kingdom Lodge is best. I will concede that this is the coolest Christmas tree on property.
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Christmas must be almost here - the Christmas bells (Blandfordia grandiflora) have appeared in Manly Dam.
Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976
Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas!!
I've decided to have a look back at Christmases from the past, while I'm struggling to find up to date photos!! You might find some of them amusing!! This is me, back in 1990, which was Matt's first Christmas, giving Tim the 'cold shoulder'!!
As the wife decorated the tree so well I thought I'd experiment with using my flash and fixed light to try and get some dynamic photos.
In the end though, just turning all the lights off in the room and allowing the fairy lights do the work produced the nicest picture.
Chuffed that I remembered to stop-down the aperture a bit to get the star-burst affect on the lights.
Explore, 12/19/08
It's snowing outside, but there's a bright spot in my house. My Christmas cactus has just burst into bloom. I thought the snowy scene outside the window with the flowers made a nice concept, but it took me a while to figure out how to get the flowers to show up against the snowy background. Actually, it'd have been nice if there was just white, no trees, but that's what's outside that window.