2006 Card and beyond

2006 Card


Like its 28 predecessors, this card visually summarizes our lives' events the year it was made. However, there is a textual key to the images, and on the other side of that this year we printed straightforward photos taken in 2006. In addition Eva's 2006 book and movie lists were enclosed with the card.

Crèche figures carved from Ivory soap front; Herman's cousins in Pubnico, Nova Scotia inside; red-shouldered hawk in a pine tree back

The front of the envelope, with address label, return address label, and U.S. postage stamp all custom-designed for this card. Eva in her Halloween penguin costume Female belted kingfisher photographed outside James d'Entremont's boat shop in Pubnico, Nova Scotia A photo of the cemetery gate flanked by angels with trumpets. We visited Herman's mother's grave here.
The address-label decorations U.S. postage stamp by Eva

The back of the envelope was sealed with one of these stickers:
Monument in Ivory by Bob Cooper. It's a feline sculpture with 'A.T. 1993-2006' carved into the base A meadowlark singing, surrounded by wreath-like green lettering saying 'Hark the Herald Sings' with a streak of red ribbon-like lettering saying 'Glory!' Photo of a monk parakeet in a pine tree A crystal cube with the logo of the company formerly known as Mathsoft, now subsumed into PTC Ivory soap sculpture of a camel

Abstraction of a photo of the chef and his assistant, with lettering saying 'Chez Christophe' running up the side We buried A.T.in the backyard with this lamenated memorial photo in a sealed jar. Custom-designed official U.S. postage stamps: Besides the limited edition (20 exist in the world) stamp of the trumpet-blowing angels at the gates of the cemetery in Herman's ancestral hometown of Pubnico Nova Scotia, I also designed a stamp to celebrate Chez Christophe, a restaurant in the Acadian region of N.S. where we had a particularly lovely lunch with friends and family. While I was at it, I had a commemorative stamp for A.T. made as well at www.zazzle.com.

Alternate crèches:
circularly cropped
Study in black and white
Lacking primary figures
The 2006 "outside" representative displayed on A Contact Sheet of all the Christmas Cards 1975-present

Alternate cranes:
Sandhill crane
flying
foursome
The 2006 "inside" representative displayed on A Contact Sheet of all the Christmas Cards 1975-present

2007 Card

The key to the symbols, a text document embellished with 2008 with an ice-skater tracing out the 8, and two harlequin ducks flying
The key to the images summarizes in words the events of our personal lives in 2007. On the other side of that textual explanation we printed photos taken in 2007. There were variations on the photo-page.

In addition Eva's 2007 book and movie lists were enclosed with the card.

Sketches used on some keys in lieu of the flying harlequins:

simple drawing of a swimming male eider drawing of the head of a yellow-crowned night-heron

Back of the card followed by front of the card, which is the order seen if the card is spread out:
Cow with nursing calf and a cattle egret upon its back. A red ribon with a gld bell has been photoshopped around its neck to make it festive back; Lopsidedly pregnant Mary riding a donkey led by Joseph, in a Matisse cutout style on a black background front; Lopsidedly pregnant Mary riding a donkey led by Joseph, in a Matisse cutout style on a white background Alternate;

Inside left and inside right:
Table 4 at the wedding reception of Maura Drumm and Brian Hunt. Linda, Jeannie, Larry, Marie, Tom, Kathy, Eva, and Herman left; The skunk, fork-tailed flycatcher, laughing falcon, and black-necked stilt are done in off-white and black. The groove-billed ani, black vulture, Muscovy duck, great-tailed grackle, white-faced ibis and neotropic cormorant are all black right;

Front and back of the envelope, followed by the sticker alone:
The return-address label is graced by a photo of a Harlequin duck swimming. The address label boasts a circularly cropped flying Northern Gannet front; The seal is a photo by Eva of a Scrub Euphonia encircled by green lettering identifying the bird with a touch of red lettering that says Merry Christmas back; The Scrub Euphonia sticker by itself sticker;

2008 Card

front of the card followed by the inside, then the back:
digital photo of a cookie-dough ornament of our house Front ornaments on a evergreen tree background, each superimposed with a bird we saw in Kansas Left Drawing of memorable bird species we saw in MA. Virginia Rail (Needham), broad-billed hummingbird Cape Cod), Evening Grosbeak (Nantucket), and Sabine's Gull (Stellagen Banks) Right Drawing of the Ornate Hawk-Eagle Back

Text summarizing our 2008 (html); Same, as a Word document

Photos on the back of the key to the symbols: The 2008 Go windows on an Election theme, Herman in the Prairie Chicken Blind, a Prairie Chicken, an Aracari, etc. digital photo of a cookie-dough ornament of our house digital photo of a cookie-dough ornament of our house ornaments on a evergreen tree background, each superimposed with a bird we saw in Kansas Front and back of the envelope
The photos were on the back of the textual summary. There were variations on the house and KS panels.
The sticker on the back of the envelope is a photo of a St. Francis of Assisi carving we bought in Antigua Guatemala. The return address sticker contains a drawing by Eva of a Yellow-winged Tanager. The address label features her drawing of a Blue-throated Motmot.

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pre-1987 cards
Cards from 1987 through 1995
Cards from 1996 through 2005
A Contact Sheet of all the Christmas Cards 1975-present
silkscreening the 1995 card.
Exhibition of Christmas Cards at Genesee Community College.

2008 birding Guatemala.
2008 birding Kansas.
2007 birding Mexico.

book and movie lists from years past.

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