2016 Card


Like its 38 predecessors, this card visually commemorates our lives' events--now, sadly, just Eva's life-- the previous 12 months. However, there is a textual insert, and on the other side of that some straightforward photos taken in 2016. In addition Eva's 2016 book and movie lists were enclosed with the card.

A photograph of a Blue Tit made of wool felt, on a bough front a photo of a European Goldfinch made of felt inside left a photo of a magpie made of felt inside right A Puffin made of felt swimming on a sea of blue felt back

The envelope, please:
The front and back of the envelope.  The two labels feature, respectively, a turkey and a yellow-bellied sapsucker. 
The back has a circular seal with the image of a blackpoll on an evergreen branch. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.; The photos on the back of the text insert;

Alternate images of the felt birds:
A photograph of a Blue 
Tit made of wool felt, on a felt green donut with a bow a photo of a European Goldfinch made of felt. The font is harrington, 
there's a little shamrock to the right of the green text a photo of a magpie made of felt. 
The top of the circular background is blue, the bottom is green. A Puffin made of felt on a white background with the text Puffin in blue and Cliffs of Moher in green, block letters A Puffin made of felt on a white background with the text Puffin in blue and Cliffs of Moher in green, Harrington font
We saw a lot of sheep in Ireland. That's one reason I cut these trip bird depictions out of wool felt.


2017 Card


As usual, this card visually commemorates the previous 12 months of my life. There is a textual insert to explain the images, and on the other side of that some straightforward photos taken in 2017. In addition Eva's 2017 book and movie lists were either enclosed with the card or emailed.

A photo of an indigo bunting atop an evergreen that I took during the 2017 Birdathon back A colorful drawing of Ellie, Eva, and Jean singing while wielding tambourine, bell and bongos, 
while Stauffer lies on the floor with his head in Ellie's lap. He's playing a trumpet. front
a photo of a snowy owl inside left a photo of a king eider inside right

The envelope, please:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features a dickcissel. 
The address label features a northern shrike. This back has a rectangular seal with the 
image of an evening grosbeak. This was just one of a variety of stickers used A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.; The photos on the back of the text insert;

Alternate medley of photos with red-bellied_woodpecker
Alternate medley of photos with sculpture and car trouble.


2018 Card


As usual, this card visually commemorates the previous 12 months of my life. There is a textual insert to explain the images, and on the other side of that some straightforward photos taken in 2018. In addition there are pointers to Eva's 2018 book and movie lists.

A photo of Eva and  her cat in an isulated house madeout of a card table with pitched roof made of cardboard all insulated with 
feather quilt over the whole thing, photoshopped onto a snowing forest, with a wreath and a poinsetta.front two blue circles containing black and white drawings of, respectively, a dovekie and a 
Barrow's goldeneye, along with text crediting Mollie and Ida with leading me to these life MA birdsback
a drawing of a skimmer with text thanking Chris Floyd for the tip and Margo Goetschkes 
for showing me the bird in her spotting scope. inside left A drawing of a pileated woodpecker in flight and  then 
landed, with text describing my thrill in seeing it inside right

Here's a  printable, foldable card. The inside panels are upside down so that, if printed, the card can be folded twice resulting in a card with everything right side up and the cover, inside and back panels all in position. In this image I used an  alternate photograph of me and my cat Miai in our insulated house.

The envelope, please:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features a red-breasted nuthatch. 
The address label features a long-eared owl. This back has a rectangular seal with the 
image of a snow owl.  This was just one of a variety of stickers used. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.; The photos on the back of the text insert;
Here's a zoom on the long-eared_owl address label, which didn't miniaturize well...
and a sampling of the other stickers used:
 Bullock's oriole, my snow shovel is a wovel,  Mollie and Ida getting the white-fronted goose,  Anna's hummingbird, a kestrel, and  put your right foot in.

Alternate medley of photos including a wild pony of Chincoteague
Alternate medley of photos including Kathy and Mary's introduction to birding.

My Christmas card cover was meant to commemorate the insulation of my house in 2018. I wonder if it would have helped if I included a proportionally sized can of house paint in the tableau, because I did say in my year summary that I had my house insulated and the interior painted. As it was, two recipients told me they took it as a crèche! They seemed to have liked it, so I take it no blasphemous intent was perceived. Did they think I was taking a break between creating the stable and moving in the holy family and the animals?


2019 Card


As usual, this card visually commemorates the previous 12 months of my life. There is a textual insert to explain the images, and on the other side of that some straightforward photos taken in 2019 (with one exception: A 1965 photo is included to show how much Ed looks like his biological father George Casey). In addition there are pointers to Eva's 2019 book and movie lists.

A Madonna and Child draped in the hand-painted silk scarf Eva got in Vietnam, and a Joseph figure carpetering 
a cradle, with the text <i>Unto us a child is born</i>.front the 2nd panel from my 5-panel graphic saga about discovering Ed.  The setting is a New Year's Day family dinner in 1936.back
My 2017 Evening Grosbeak photo because it was better than my 2019 photo. inside left A drawing of an opposum, with colorful primitive <i>Happy New Year 2020!</i> text inside right

Some recipienmts thought my opossum was a rat. After Chinese New Year, 2020 is the Year of the Rat, so that works too.

Here's a  printable, foldable card. The inside panels are upside down so that, if printed, the card can be folded twice resulting in a card with everything right side up and the cover, inside and back panels all in position.

The envelope, please:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features a bee-eater. 
The address label features a hoopoe. This back has a circular seal with the 
image of purple sandpiper.  This was just one of a variety of stickers used. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.; The photos on the back of the text insert;
Here's a sampling of other stickers used:
 Yellow-bellied_Sapsucker at its well,  Red-breasted Nuthatch on Ida's windowsill,  Dark-eyed Junco in an evergreen tree,  Harlequin Ducks,  Blackburnian Warbler in a pine tree,  Red-bellied Woodpecker,  Great-crested Grebe in France,  Bee Eaters in France,  Flamingo in the Carmargue, and  Burmese Shrike in Vietnam.

Alternate medley of photos, including Eva at Carcasonne in France and on a water buffalo in Vietnam
Here's a horizontally-oriented medley celebrating get-togethers with friends and family.
This photo medley remembers a brunch with three high school friends, the basket-boat in Vietnam, and birding France.

 Our O.A.T. group in Vietnam.  Thanh our wonderful leader.

My birding trip to France is detailed here.

The back cover of my 2019 card is  panel 2 of a  5-panel graphic saga about discovering my half brother.


2020 Card


As usual, this card visually commemorates the previous 12 months of my life. There is a textual insert to explain the images, and on the other side of that some straightforward photos taken in the last year (since mid December 2019). In addition there are pointers to Eva's 2020 book and movie lists.

Photo of a Crested Caracara image made of pebbles.back A rectangle of pebbles with two kneeling adults made of pebbles on either side of an infant on a stone slab.front
Drawings of RBG near the start and end of her tenure on the Supreme Court. inside left A representation of a Class of '64 Zoom meeting, and an Quinite figure from 1964 from my animation</i> text inside right

Here's a  printable, foldable card. The inside panels are upside down so that, if printed, the card can be folded twice resulting in a card with everything right side up and the cover, inside and back panels all in position.

The envelope, please:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features the Aquinite speaker from my 138 second animation. 
The address label features the articulated figure from my 50 second proof-of-concept animation, but dressed in red and an elf hat, and carrying a holiday bag. This back has an oval seal with my 
Caracara photo taken Aug. 16, 2020 in Amesbury, MA.  This was just one of a variety of stickers used. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.; The photos on the back of the text insert;
Here's a sampling of other stickers used:
 American Avocet,  American Pipet,  belted Kingfisher,  Cooper's Hawk,  Green Heron,  Hudsonian Godwit,  Long-tailed Duck,  Pileated Woodpecker, and  Purple Sandpiper.


2021 Card

As usual, this card visually summarizes my year.
My 2021 book and movie lists were enclosures.

the MAGA mob, instead of the MAGI, having an epiphany on Little Christmas: Storming the Capitol failed to bring down American Democracy. (For Now) 7 ornaments, each depicting a bird I photographed in 2021 that I had never before seen in MA

The envelope, please: Summary of my 2021:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features a European Goldfinch cribbed from my 2016 card. 
The address label features the White-winged Crossbill cribbed from my 2012 card. This back has a circular seal with a 
Long-tailed Duck photo.  This was just one of a variety of stickers used. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.;
Summary of Eva's 2021 in Word form

Two examples of photo medleys on the back of the text insert;

8.5 x 11 label sheet printed with the stickers I used  The variety and proportion of stickers I used.,


2022 Card

As usual, this card visually summarizes my year.
My 2022 book and movie lists were enclosures.

The rising sun, Mt_Fuji, a red Shinto shrine gate with a gong, two women in kimonos with fans. If you look closely, the heads of Kathy and Eva have been photoshopped onto these figures, and they are holding the fans that K and E respectively hand-painted in Japan. A drawing of Ketanji Brown Jakson, KBG, being sworn in to SCOTUS.

Variations on KBJ: KBJ in red, KBJ in green

The envelope, please: Summary of my 2022:
The front and back of the envelope. The return address label features a kimono.
The address label features a Geisha. This back has a circular seal with a 
Purple Sandpiper photo.  This was just one of a variety of stickers used. A screenshot of the text in the textual insert document.;
Summary of Eva's 2022 in Word form

Four Variations on the photo medley printed on the other side of the text summary:
Two examples of vertical photo medleys on the back of the precis. They both celebrate Japan, New Skete, 
the cousins gathering, and birds. The left one also conains a photo of Christmas 2021.;

Two examples of horizontal photo medleys on the back of the precis. Both celebrate Japan, New Skete, 
and the cousns gathering. The top one also contains photos of Marinna, Anne d'Entremont, and Eileen. 
The lower one contains my birdbath, rasberry harvest, and a meadow lark.  ;


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pre-1987 cards
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A Contact Sheet of all the Christmas Cards 1975-present
silkscreening the 1995 card.
Exhibition of Christmas Cards at Genesee Community College.

Sketching at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

George R. Casey's Memorial page.

Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2018
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2015-2017
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2014
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2013
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2012
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2011
Birds photographed by Eva in Massachusetts in 2010

Birding France 2019
Birding Phoenix 2018
Bird photos I took within driving distance of San Diego 2017
birding Ireland in 2016.
birding Yellowstone and the Salt Lake City Area in 2015.
birding Hawaii in 2011 with Herman and Oakes
2010 birding Arizona.
2009 birding Utah.
2008 birding Guatemala.
2008 birding Kansas.
2007 birding Mexico.

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