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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 24
This image, as with the last of the Storring puzzles, was the perfect end to the collection. It doesn’t matter that this image is from 1936, it’s still so true. I don’t have kids, but I imagine that I probably did this to my parents when I was younger. That might have been the reason they started letting me and my brother open the gift we got each other on Christmas Eve. It helped to ease some of that excitement, so we could get up at a normal time the next day. Of course, as we got older, sleeping later was more important than getting up at 7 to open presents.
Christmas Morning by Perry Barlow -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 12
I really liked that I didn’t look ahead much at the images. I glanced at them when I got the collection, but I didn’t bother to look at the images when I was doing each puzzle. If I had looked ahead, then it would have spoiled today’s surprise of my favorite building. I love St. Basil’s Cathedral. It’s such a unique and interesting building. When I saw the top of the Cathedral starting to form, I knew what the image was, and I was excited. To me, this is the perfect way to end a month of advent. Well, for this one it was just 12 days.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 23
I liked this different presentation of the three kings. So often they’re presented on horses or just as a trio standing together. Here the three are in a boat together. It’s interesting too that they’re holding wrapped presents instead of the traditional gifts they bring. I also liked the sky in this one. It wasn’t quite one color, so that made it easier. It was mostly about finding the right shade of blue or black to fit in.
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Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 11
This one was a little bit of a challenge given the lack of architecture and abundance of trees. And, of course, there are the customary people. I kind of miss the architecture. Although, the numerous trees did provide for a little bit of a challenge in puzzling. These puzzles haven’t been terribly challenging aside from not knowing the image. As a result, I’ve been working these from one side to the other. This one I started on from the bottom and worked up to the trees. It’s not much, but it’s just a little bit more of a challenge to make the puzzles fun.
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Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 10
Again, I love the architecture in these puzzles. That building to the left is really cool. I’m guessing that it’s a church of some sort. It’s a little hard to tell. It’d be nice to be able to identify these buildings and find some photographic puzzles of them. I like puzzles of drawings, but when it comes to architecture, I prefer photographs because you can get a better look at the building.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 22
It’s cold here today, so I can’t imagine getting taken around by a bike. It’s got to be cold for both Santa and the driver. And looking closer, I see what I thought was more smoke from his pipe, is a whip. That’s not very nice. The biker doesn’t look terribly happy about the situation. I’m not sure if these covers are meant to be analyzed, but I can’t really help it. Given that it’s 2008 and that’s right in the middle of one of the worst recessions in recent memory, maybe this is all about being driven by the obligation of Christmas, by that commercialism. We can’t afford it, but we’re also compelled socially to do so.
Green Christmas by Marcellus Hall -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 9
It wasn’t until I saw the writing on the tent that I realized this was supposed to be France. I thought it was another Germany image given the architecture. I liked the colors in this one. The components of the images by now are quite familiar, but this one seemed brighter. I think it’s the Christmas tree and the dark blue night sky. As with yesterday’s I’d love to do a puzzle of just the buildings there. I doubt they’re really arranged quite like that, but even doing a puzzle of the church would be really fun.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 21
I honestly wasn’t thinking too much about the image when I was putting this together. I was just enjoying putting a puzzle together. I had some errands to run before work this morning, and we’re preparing for a storm, maybe a blizzard over the next couple of days, so my mind’s a little elsewhere. Puzzles always help to bring me back though. It’s a rather simple, focused exercise, so today’s duo of puzzles was a welcome break to the chores and uncertainty of the week.
Santa’s Elves by William Steig -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 8
This is another one set somewhere in Germany. I know that there’s the scene down in the front, but it’s one that we’ve seen before, so I’m more drawn to the castle in the mountains. Is that our class puzzle castle? Is that Neunschwanstein? While I don’t want another puzzle featuring Neunschwantein (unless it does something totally new with the image), I would like to see just these building with that castle in better focus. I like the collection of architecture styles.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 20
This might be the most recent of the images. I don’t remember if there’s been a cover with a sooner date, but 2011 stands out as the most recent. I very well might be wrong. December feels like it’s gone on forever, and we’ve still got a handful of days before Christmas. I don’t know that I’ve been down in the heart of Chicago when it’s snowed, but I see the L when I look at this. I doubt that when it snows it looks like this at anytime except maybe late at night when few people are out or perhaps on Christmas morning, when I hope, the city is quieter. Generally, though, it’s noisy, smelling, crowded, and busy. It’s a nightmare to be down in. My brother had an apartment near the L and the train went right past his living room. I know I didn’t live there, so I don’t know what it was like 24/7, but I thought it would’ve been fun to live that close to the train.
Apparition by Eric Drooker I’ve been playing around with time-lapse videos of my puzzling. This is the best so far. I still need to work on getting everything in the shot, but it’s more focused and at least facing the right direction this time.
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