In these years of waning numbers of Christmas cards, both sent and received, I try to keep the cards I receive one year so that I am reminded to return the favour the following year. This year, there was one card I didn’t get around to returning, as I got caught up with overseas visitors, and then once Christmas had passed, it seemed too late. I’m sorry, Betsy and Craig!
I have had the card sitting on top of my desk, and finally, yesterday, after several weeks, I actually looked at it, and I thought, “I know that square!”
I knew exactly where it was, and went immediately to the photograph that would prove it:
Yes, in December 2016, my friend in Florida (though first met in my home town in New Zealand 37 years ago when she was an exchange student) sent me a Christmas card with a scene on it from Stockholm, a city I had already booked tickets to visit in May 2017, Then on my visit, without realising it, I photographed the same corner of the same square, in the Old Town, Gamla Stan. Although I will admit, the square looks much more appealing in December.
A Separate Life 