Round pebbles, poetry, orange-peel hat on my knee

[sovay]

This year my mother and I bought a dark-patterned wrapping paper which seems to show hares and holly and green branches and birds intermingled and we have thought from the first time we saw it that there are foxes, but whenever we look we can't see them.

Ten years ago I found out that the 1935 A Tale of Two Cities was a Christmas release, hence its otherwise inexplicably invented—albeit charming rather than saccharine—scene of accidentally collecting Carton for midnight mass in the middle of his pub crawl, which in high school introduced me to "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and all these years later seems to have fixed a slightly foxed Ronald Colman as one of my Christmas-ish icons.

It snowed thinly again this morning and is staying crust-crunching cold.

Merry Erev Christmas.

Comments

[thawrecka]

Happy holidays!

[selkie]

hares and holly and green branches and birds intermingled and we have thought from the first time we saw it that there are foxes, but whenever we look we can't see them.

This sounds really pretty and I will be over here singing Marine Marchande.

We have reached the point in the household that the gifts are fewer and highly targeted, but rest assured that the child will be inundated with socks, pajamas, books, and other terminally uncool items.

[regshoe]

Merry Christmas! What beautiful ecologically-suggestive wrapping paper.

I don't think I knew that was Sydney Carton in your icon, aww. I always associate 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' with Victorian Christmas stuff for some reason, so it's appropriate for Dickens, but perhaps would seem a bit strange in the French Revolution setting.

[gwynnega]

Merry Erev Christmas!

[pameladean]

I think I saw that movie long ago. I already had a profound crush on Sydney Carton from reading the book over and over, and a lot of juvenilia had him as a character inspiration before Hamlet for a time usurped his place.

I am agog at your wonderful paper. Averted-vision foxes!

P.

[mrissa]

I believe in the foxes all the same.

[de_eekhoorn]

Happy Holidays!
I am very curious as to what this wrapping paper looks like, now...

[asakiyume]

Magic wrapping paper with hiding foxes! Very nice. The extra stamp you put on a card if it's in a square envelope is a fox face--I had some square cards, and it was fun to put the fox next to the snowflake stamp.