Acrylic on fiberboard, 6x15 inches.

The title looks a bit Russian, but in actuality it's Christmas Trees From Other Planets, and it's the first in a series of paintings dedicated to extraterrestrial Tannenbaums. This particular species hails from AAlothianus, a small icy world circling the star Eta Sculptoris.

Actually, three of these trees were acquired in 1957 by the ever-enterprising Keb, who has since transplanted them to the aurora lapped shores of Beechey Island as a tribute to the crew of the ill-fated HMS Erebus. On the Monday evening before Thanksgiving Day they begin to glow with an indescribable blue light... and continue to do so until the first week of January. Of course, to The Order of the Half Hand they are the source of the pure and primal blue light.

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