Christmas is for cats! And these guys know it.

Happy Catmas! Christmas Time in Catland by Louis Wain.

A woodland Christmas 🎨Jamie Lauby

How I expect my Christmas mail to be delivered

“Wenceslas was perhaps the most beloved King who ever lived. He was a Prince of Peace. I think that to have lived so long ago, and ever since to have been a song on the lips of the world, just because he was gentle, is a wonderful thing to have happened.” ~A.A.Milne #Christmas

Pancakes it is

Wassailing wasn’t just singing. It was a winter blessing for orchards, where people toasted trees with cider and hung bits of bread for the robins. A good harvest began with a good song. #FolkloreThursday Art: Pauling Baynes

14 days until Christmas

"The Snow Child", pub. 1978. Based on the old Russian folk tale of 'Snegurochka', a girl made of snow who appeared one day to a old childless couple #BookologyThursday The story's changed over the years; now she is said to be the Granddaughter of Father Frost #BookChatWeekly

From "The Night Before Christmas" Arthur Rackham 1931 🎄❄️🎄

'Town at Night' by Anton Pieck, (1895-1987)

❄️🎄❄️Father Christmas - by Arthur Rackham #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

James Draper - A Deep Sea Idyll, 1903

From "The Night Before Christmas"🎄❄️ Arthur Rackham (1931)

The Magic of Christmas

Frost covered Ivy berries are for admiration rather than eating...but for birds they’re a winter lifeline ❄️🪶 Folklore, however, saw another side to Ivy and its tangled, twisting nature made it a symbol of love, protection & fidelity....and once upon a time a girl walking out

🎨Viggo Pedersen (Danish 1854-1926) The painter's wife Johanne Louise in a purple dress in the garden picking laburnum, 1908

Winter Wonderland by Lucy Grossmith. #FolkloreSunday #WinterSolstice is coming. #Yule #Christmas

Today is the feast of the Christian martyr, St Lucy, a Catholic saint and patron of the blind. Legend says it was she who fed the Christians hiding in the dark Roman catacombs, wearing a garland of candles on her head to light her way in the darkness. 🖼️Sulamith Wülfing.