Happy Holidays 2025!
This continues the longstanding tradition of sharing homemade cards. Heidi drew the card again. Hope you enjoy it! It echoes elements from the 2024 (making that card link). Below is a 30-second time-lapse of its creation (actual time 1hr 40min).
- 2025 was fun, with Heidi and Seth taking a Rick's Steve's tour of England & Wales (literary highlights blogged; select photo of Tolkien's door below)
- 2026 promises to be fun, with Erin getting engaged (to Connor Richman, yes, another Connor. Our Connor will graduate from U-Cincinnati in May with an Environmental Engineering degree.
Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday season and a new year. Sincerely,
Seth, Heidi, Erin & Connor (and Connor") [image of the 5 of us below]
2025 Card Notes
- Lindberg Holiday cards made since ~1998 are viewable on Team Lindberg Crafts - Blog (which often does not load at workplaces, but it's just a Google Photoblog).
- Individual posts about all the previous ones are tagged/listed on SELindberg's blog.
Seth, Tall-Connor, Erin, Heidi, Connor Richman
Heidi (wearing her wedding ring as the One Ring) and Seth in front of the doors that J.R.R. Tolkien drew inspiration (and literally drew) for the door into Moria [Stow on the Wold, England]
The 'Tolkien Door' at Stow on the Wold Doors of Durin, also known as the West-gate of Moria
The north porch of St. Edward's Church in Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, is home to a wooden door which looks like something from a fairy story. Indeed, rumour has it that the door was the inspiration behind J.R.R. Tolkien's J. R. R. Tolkien's Doors of Durin, the west gate of Moria that appears in a scene in the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.The door is made of dark wood with studded panels, and it has an old oil lamp hanging above it. The door is quite small, and it is said that only a hobbit could fit through it.Tolkien was known to visit the area while he studied at, and later became a professor at, Oxford University (Merton College). Much as we'd love to believe that the door was instrumental in the creation of the Doors or Durin, the claims have never been authenticated.The north porch of the church was built about 300 years ago and young yew saplings were planted to enhance its entrance. Today these trees are now part of the architraves for the door and make this one of the most photographed doors in the Cotswolds!St Edward's Church is just a short walk from the Market Square and the magical yew tree door and stained glass windows are well worth visiting.
