Ginger Snap – The week’s best holiday photos

“Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.”

– John Geddes

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

– Alexander Smith

“Santa Claus is anyone who loves another and seeks to make them happy; who gives himself by thought or word or deed in every gift that he bestows.”

– Edwin Osgood Grover

“City sidewalks, Busy sidewalks, Dressed in holiday style In the air, There’s a feeling Of Christmas…”

– Silver Bells

“Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room.”

– Nora Roberts

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”

– Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”

– Harlan Miller

“Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago.”

– Tom Baker