"Though nothing can bring back the hour ... Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower."

(William Wordsworth}

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“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.”
- Paul Cezanne

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Hans Greiner started making glass ball ornaments (called baubles) during the 1800s, which became the first manufactured Christmas ornaments. In the late 19th century, the enterprising F.W. Woolworth brought the idea to America, where he sold more than $25 million worth per year.

1843 was the date of the publication of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol and it was around that time, in the early part of the reign of Queen Victoria, that Christmas as we now know it was largely invented. The word merry was then beginning to take on its current meaning of ‘jovial, ... Prior to that, in the times when other ‘merry’ phrases were coined, for example, make merry (circa 1300), Merry England (circa 1400) and the merry month of May (1560s), merry had a different meaning, that is, ‘pleasant, peaceful and agreeable’.

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"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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