Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Happy Valentine’s Day!
February 13th, 2010
Photograph by Nickolas Muray for McCall Style and Beauty, George Eastman House on Flickr
Taking Down the Christmas Tree
January 6th, 2010
Day 6: January 6, 2010
I usually take the Christmas tree down on New Year’s Day, but this year I waited a little longer. It always feels sort of sad taking the ornaments off, and tossing the tree out into the snow. But this year’s tree was full and beautiful and served us well, so I have no regrets.
A Christmas Carol
December 24th, 2009
Merry Christmas to one and all!
Here’s my favorite holiday story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham and presented and preserved in several formats by the Internet Archive.
And if you’d rather listen to the book, I recommend the Librivox A Christmas Carol version 2, read by Glen Hallstrom, otherwise known as “Smokestack Jones.” You can download the files in many formats from the Librivox page for this audiobook, or download or listen online at its Internet Archive page. Librivox recordings are free audiobooks of public domain titles, read by volunteers.
A Christmas Carol, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Embedded from the Internet Archive
A Christmas Carol, Read by Glen Hallstrom
Embedded from the Internet Archive.
