Category Archives: Seasons & Holidays

  My Mother’s hand drawn Halloween card this year.

Easter is the most religious Christian holiday on the calendar, celebrating the resurrection of Christ.  It, like Christmas and Valentines Day, has been hijacked by commercial interests, so most of what you see are advertisements for plastic colored eggs, chocolate … Continue reading →

Having just experienced a break up, I thought this a good time to explore the origins of Valentine’s Day, another holiday on our calendar that has been sanitized and commericialized to the point of nonrecognition. Many sources reach back to … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving is all about the celebration of a bountiful harvest, and giving thanks for the past year, either to your God or the earth for what has been provided.  In any case, it is a joyful gathering of people celebrating … Continue reading →

Tonight is a full moon.  It is October, so that makes the full moon a “Hunter’s Moon.”  According to the website earthsky.org: The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. The Hunter’s Moon is the full … Continue reading →

Christmas cards are a wonderful way to bring art to the holidays.  As I’ve said before, my family is a card family.  We share cards for many occasions, so Christmas is a big card holiday.  I love to send and … Continue reading →

Happy Thanksgiving, on this day, one of the most American of all American holidays. The modern day Thanksgiving with its emphasis on shopping, and football, or how much you can eat is nothing like the first Thanksgiving.  The first thanksgiving … Continue reading →

These postcards are from my grandmother’s collection, some of them from her mother, brought from Sweden many years ago. Christmas wasn’t Christmas at our house without listening to one of our favorite albums, Christmas in Sweden.