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1st of December... Yay! It's Christmas! This year I'll be spending Christmas in Taipei so I have the feeling it will be a little bit different than usual.
Decided today to jump on the board the 'I can see myself in a Christmas decoration' boat. Everyone's doing it, it has to be cool!
Tis the Season
10 Days till Christmas
Every winter we set a vase on our dining room table and watch an amaryllis flower emerge from a ugly, boring bulb. These amaryllis flowers were in the garden at the Bellagio at the base of a giant ornament.
Disneyland Paris.
December 2013.
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This was our latest Christmas tree adornment this year. I thought he deserved photographing cos he's cool.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Strobist
• Canon 580ex-II above left on 1/64 power into a white umbrella.
Still experimenting with long exposures. Tried the long exposure noise repression cumstom function. It's better.
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Brampton gets ready for Christmas 2022
Brampton, Cumbria
Brampton is a small market town, civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Carlisle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hadrian's Wall. Historically part of Cumberland, it is situated off the A69 road which bypasses it. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, is about a mile outside the town, near the hamlet of Milton.
St Martin's Church is famous as the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
The town was founded in the 7th century as an Anglian settlement.
Brampton was granted a Market Charter in 1252 by King Henry III, and became a market town as a result.
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart stayed in the town for one night, marked by a plaque on the wall of the building (a shoe shop) currently occupying the location; here he received the Mayor of Carlisle who had been summoned to Brampton to surrender the city to the Young Pretender. The Capon Tree Monument, to the south of the town centre, commemorates the 1746 hanging of six Jacobites from the branches of the Capon Tree, Brampton's hitherto traditional trysting place.
In 1817 the Earl of Carlisle built the octagonal Moot Hall, which is in the centre of Brampton and houses the Tourist Information Centre. It replaced a 1648 building which was once used by Oliver Cromwell to house prisoners.
Much of Brampton consists of historic buildings built of the local red sandstone.
The Christmas Angels have been used as holiday decorations in Monterey, California, since 1956, when the first angels were designed by artist Erica Franke.
An admirer of Mexican folk art, she fashioned 88 angels after the somewhat primitive style used by the priests in California missions to teach Christianity to Indians. These angels had brightly colored clothing, dark skin, and somber expressions.
In 1970 some of the angels were sold and the others were restored, with some changes to skin tones, hair and eye color, and facial expressions.
In 2001 the Monterey Cultural Arts Commission commissioned the original artist (now an octogenarian named Erica Barton Haba) to create ten new angels. Two of them hang on Pacific House in the Custom House Plaza near Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf.