Christmas Cards III

(1996 through 2005)
Each one visually summarizes our lives' events that year

1996:

Side A (26k) Side B (33k)
The 7 Doran brothers & Eva at Owen's wedding; The Great Gray Owl ; Conor McCann Catching. Trips to California, Texas, Nantucket & Italy, etc.

1997: The 20th card in the series

1997, our year images (51k bytes)

Go Granny Go, the snowman we built with Kiran & Nitya, Our candlelight dinner at Sirini & Raghu's the day of the sewer explosion, my invention, The company trip to Disneyworld, the Abbey in Paoli, the snowshoe hare Glenn pointed out in Quebec...it's all there if you REALLY look.
Ellie, Stauffer, Tom Gullick, Herman, & I got knockout looks at the Wallcreeper in the Spanish Pyrenees
Herman identified the Sadinian Warbler on Mallorca before we met any fellow birders even though I left our Mallorcan Bird Book back in Boston. The European Field Guide & Herman's powers of observation ("Look at that red eye!") were sufficient.

postcard of Gaudi Apt.
Building in Barcelona

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Triangle Postals/Foto Lluis Betran

Eva leaning against the Sagrada
Familia in Barcelona

Bill Holden crashed with us on
& off the Spring he got his ph.d
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Cecy and her mother Beatriz
in Los Mochis Mexico
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Herman & I enjoyed a wonderful 4 days in Mexico, centered on Cecy & Joaquin's wedding (including pre & post wedding parties with dancing & tequlla), but including a cruise on Tompolabampo Bay (where we saw lots of bottle-nosed Dolphins & Frigate birds) and a public bus trip to the colonial town of El Fuerte. It was our first trip to Mexico, other than stepping across the border. Cecy was an exchange student at Somerville H.S. who stayed with us in 1989.

Our new (1n 1997) rug

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I was going to silkscreen a (naive) representation of this rug on side b of our 1997 card... Running out of time is very symbolic of 1997.

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1998 card (47k) Casey's Pub

On the back of this card is printed our 1998 book-and-movie lists & a key to the symbols.
I substituted green paint for the red of Casey's Pub. Red clashed with the Scarlet Ibis.

1999

1999 (53k)

20k

47k

Front: Spruce Grouse seen in Vermont; Back: Bratislava; Inside left: Andean Cock-of-the-rock and Amazonian Umbrellabird (We birded Ecuador ); Inside right: The Czech Republic
detail: The slide to y2k (27kb)

2000

55k 47k
Each print is unique(45k);

Back: Train-bike foliage tour; On the Go Congress free day some of us rented from the Bike Doctor in Denver; Turtle in Walden Pond; Salsa Lessons (244k .rm movie clip);
The back page (19k) illustrating all this.

Front: Toyota Echo; Great Horned Owl at Mt. Auburn; Another print (21k) with a brown tree, whereas the print above has a gray tree.

Inside left: Go windows; Teddy playing Go with Paul ; Herman went to Oberammergau.

Inside right: Herman went to Australia with Field Guides; We watched the Olympics. Another print (27k)

2001

31k We celebrate being fit enough to walk and cycle. Variations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
A friend has a guest recumbent (15k) ;
Herman got a life mammal in Massachusetts, a moose.
The reverse side (38k) A gray jay, in an evergreen tree in Colorado.
The envelope, please (12k) The Scarlet Tanager on the address label (12k)
Key to the symbols, text (5k); Key to the symbols, jpg (49k);

2002

Some red-and-black birds we saw in Belize plus
the Nantucket kickoff to Herman's personal best
year birding Massachusetts--320 species in 2002!

The envelope and the 4" X 5" key to the symbols (both sides)
Original , intermediate and final 3-Kings-in-a-Nantucket-Gallery photo montage.
Variations on the silkscreened back page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Alternate digital photos of the guan and the stork: 1, 2, 3
2002 card, envelope & enclosures framed in a "Riker Mount," a Christmas gift from Bob Cooper.
I combined card-sending with networking by enclosing a designer business card in some envelopes. There is a relationship between this role icon and the identity environment icon of the return address label. (Don't ask.)

2003

Cardboard Creche, birding chairs, coyotes and a grouse

2004

Carolers, Red-legged falcon, and Weapons of math instruction

2005

Clay creche, Panama and Texas

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pre-1987 cards
Cards from 1987 through 1995
Cards from 1996 through 2005
Christmas Cards 2006-2015
Christmas Cards 2016-2022
Christmas Cards 2023-2025, and maybe eventually beyond
A Contact Sheet of all the Christmas Cards 1975-present
The Art Gallery
Eva's Silkscreen Studio during production of the 1995 card
Exhibition of Christmas Cards at Genesee Community College.
Annual book and movie lists are often enclosed with a card.

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