Lights, Music, Decorations
Christmas Has Always Been My Favorite Holiday. It’s Magic to Me
Tree Decorations, Hillwood Museum, Washington, DC
Christmas Wreath, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg, France
Hanukkah Dreidel, Union Station, Chicago, Illinois
Santa Claus Ice Carving, Ice Park, North Pole, Alaska
The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect 
such a fun post – to have Christmas theme right now was nice…
and Marie, CeCe’s music reminds me of Christmas 1992 – so this post was special on a personal level – even tho that Give Me a Star song was new to me – I can see why you would play it over –
ahhhh
good son and the best gift ever – xoxo
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I agree, it’s a magical season, it soon will be here.
Beautifully captured, Marie. 🙂
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Excellent and unique!
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Thanks, John.
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Oh my Marie – not yet!!!! Your images are indeed magical – especially the one from Notre Dame – but I’m definitely not ready to think about Christmas magic!!!
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I know, Tina. It is too soon but one must if aa topic inspires. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh, Marie – magical throughout! And soon it will be Christmas this year too! Your first shot is something extra…
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Thanks so much. December does seem to be rapidly approaching.
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😀
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Hello.
I did not see any ice carvings in North Pole in your post. I interested to find where North Pole is and I did find that it is in the south, compared with Oulu, which is in the middle of Finland. In my country we have every now and then ice carvings. This post is from this year´s summer:
Moomin ice sculptures
Ice in Mikkeli:
Ice sculptures
Inside of the world’s biggest snow castle in Kemi there are both carvings, snow and ice.
Thank you for your interesting post. Have a wonderful day!
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Hi. The Santa face on the post is a detail from an ice sculpture. This is a link to a post I did a few years ago that shows the whole thing:
https://3rsofretirement.com/2015/12/29/now/
North Pole, Alaska, is in the interior of Alaska, about 15 miles from Fairbanks. For several years there has been an ice sculpture park during the Christmas season. The pieces aren’t large, on the scale of the moomin ones in your post. For many uears the City of Fairbanks had an international ice carving competition in February with very large carvings but they haven’t held it the last year or two.
Thanks for visiting and your links.
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Hello Marie.
Thank you for the link. I will visit it soon. I think that you should see these. Arctic Circle:
Reindeer rides and Santa
World’s biggest snow castle:
Best Snow Castle photos
Have a good day!
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That Hanukkah dreidel is quite big!
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🙂 It was part of a “large” holiday display in the train station in Chicago.
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Just magical Marie.
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Thanks, Cindy.
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