A Little More Web Kipple
Alfred Stieglitz’s Winter on Fifth Avenue. This was, apparently, one of the first times that driving snow had been photographed.
From Harvard Art Museum’s collection.
*Probably. Apparently there’s a little confusion around dates.
A double-bill today; first, a surfing Santa and his knitted elves at Hawes bridge on Gale Beck.
There’s a rather festive snowflake hot air balloon just outside of Malton’s St Michael’s Church.
Paul Nash’s Winter Sea. Painted between 1925 and 1937.
Let’s start this Christmas week with a copy of Pieter Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap.
Merry Winter Solstice 2025! And to mark it off, here’s a lovely woodcut by Hasui Kawase.
Castle Howard lit up in green as part of their Christmas ‘Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ installation.
As we are merely days away from Christmas it seems entirely appropriate to drop some images of a fantastic Santa-themed topper in Malton.
Unlike most of the other toppers from Malton I have posted, this one can be found at the south end of The Shambles, just outside of Cosy Cottage Soap.
The British Geological Survey has an interesting article on the moving alignment of true, magnetic, and grid north and how it’s about to leave England for the next several hundred years.
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Slingsby Community Primary School’s rather lovely submission to Nunnington Hall’s Christmas Tree Festival. It managed to look even better in person.
