Sunday Safari - A Very White Christmas

As I walked out the door yesterday morning I stepped into a winter wonderland.

Quite an unusual sight in these Florentine hills...

We are basically still snowed in, but we've got food, wood and a good excuse

to hang around the house instead of going shopping!

Cover and illustration from Die Bärenhöhle (The Bear's Cave), 1988, by Sita Jucker

Illustration from Christmas Bear by Feodor Rojankovsky, 1966,

thanks to Golden Gems

Bon Iver illustration for Mojo by Lisa Evans aka Firefluff

Untitled #140 (Albino deer) photograph by Simen Johan

Forest shadows drawing by Irina Troitskaya

Fox on the ground bronze sculpture by Kiki Smith

Traveler 63 at night snowglobe by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

In them trees illustration by Robert Hunter

Moominland Midwinter cover by Tove Jansson, 1958

Submission for an Anorak magazine cover contest by Lea Maria Heinrich

Last of the Autumn Leaves

Winter solstice is fast approaching. After weeks of undressing, the nettle tree in front of my window is finally almost bare, only a few green leaves still hanging to one of the lower branches. It''s a good time to go on a leaf hunt and give new life to these drying beauties. You can look for inspiration in the beastly creations from the children's book Leaves by Iranian author Mehdi Mo'eeni. The volume was awarded first prize at the 1985 Bologna book fair.

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