Including the train, though ours was a larger gauge.
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Cover for The Saturday Evening Post (December 17, 1923) by J.C. Leyendecker
More art: Three Wise Men by Salvador Dali'
Today's quote:
I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing. |
SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI |
Reminds of when in WWI the soldiers stopped fighting, sang Christmas songs , The British and the Germans,if I am correct, and played soccer.
ReplyDeleteA gesture from the Russians with such a Christmas tree sounds wonderful.
To peace and freedom...
Excellent ideas, to share humanity's better side.
Delete...when I was a kid we always had tinsel on the tree!
ReplyDeleteI wonder when they stopped selling it.
DeleteWhat a variety of wonderful images. I'll give a special thumb-up to Santa up the chimney and just maybe a thumbs-down to the sunflower Christmas tree. 😊
ReplyDeleteArthur Rackham's Santa does look very elfin doesn't he.
DeleteLove all the Christmas images, a few I have seen like the tinsel tree.
ReplyDeleteTake care, have a wonderful day!
Thanks, have a great Wednesday! See you tomorrow!
DeleteTinsel-draped trees seem to have gone out of fashion nowadays. Probably a good thing as it was always falling off!
ReplyDeleteOr there were those of us who tried to take it off, wrap it around cardboard (which it came with) and put away to use the next year!
DeleteOur trees were always decorated with tinsel. The cats used to like playing with it.
ReplyDeleteI somehow missed that, but I bet they did!
DeleteLove this post. THIS feels like Christmas. I miss the shorter, less materialistic, more Christ-focused Christmases of yesteryear, and wish you a very Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2024/12/donegal-town.html
Merry Christmas to you too!
DeleteI remember tinsel. We'd carefully take it off the tree to save for the next year.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Which was why we spent all that time laying it on branches rather than just throwing it against the tree (which was tempting!)
DeleteYou bring the special of the season closer!
ReplyDeleteI remember tinsel! It was gruesome.
ReplyDeleteThe Russians have wonderful robes.
ReplyDeleteRackman was a wonder.
Tinsel for days if I remember correctly. :)
Merry Christmas!
Growing up, we always decorated our tree with tinsel!
ReplyDeleteLovely post for the season, Barb!