The Unstoppable March of Time

I feel like a good 80% of my posts this year have had the theme of “isn’t this year going quickly?” This is…yet another. With Thanksgiving coming up so soon, it made me realize that I hadn’t yet spent a weekend for a month coming up with Christmas card designs…and I needed them this week to get all the posting underway. But when I actually sat down with Flux and Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, I found myself completely lacking any inspiration¹. Also, it turns out Flux is terrible at stylistic prompts, so my first attempt at reusing some prompts from last year all failed miserably.

What I ended up with is a bit of a cheat. But then the whole thing is a bit of a cheat, so…anyway, what many of you will get this year is a variation on a theme. One prompt, different scenes. So you’ll see a coloured pencil version of the Yorkshire Moors covered in snow, but it’ll be utterly unique to everybody else’s. You’re welcome².

We’re having a quiet Thanksgiving this year, with a drastic reduction in numbers. Consequently, I’m also drastically reducing the dessert count. It may have been as high as 20 in the past few years, but this week, it’s going to be dialled back to three. I know. It feels wrong. I’m also under orders to keep Christmas down to an acceptable number too. Terrible! I will be lucky to get into double figures even when combining both holidays! All the molds just sitting idle! Maybe I can get away with six or seven…