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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 19

Is it a bad thing that as I’m waiting for images on here to load, I’m working on the puzzle next to me? It’s so distracting because I just started it and, well, that’s not a good reason. At any point in the puzzling process, I would be distracted from what I was doing to […]