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ON DECEMBER, 19TH 2007 VIORIKA CHUMAK (KANADA, TORONTO) The Canadian light of Christmas Publicism: holidays . If to you someone will tell, that with arrival of winter in ontarijskoj to capital Toronto there is an incalculable set of angels and as much deers, do not puzzle over reflections and guesses as it is a question of angels, vpechatannykh in a snow cover, and about the metal frame deers established(installed) in many court yard private at home (sites before a facade). Thus all deers are shone in night as on a line of a skeleton the set of tiny bulbs is established . Already in the end of autumn, not waiting the beginnings of winter, city dwellers start to prepare for Christmas: windows, glasses of entrance doors from transparent turn in zasnezhennye, with different animated prompts and with well appearing christmas beauty at the house, family center; as a result so favourite shopping (a campaign on shops) the collection of domestic attributes replenishes with new characters. The townspeople, pronikshiesya magic notkami and chords of a forthcoming holiday, rastsvechivayut at home, a high-rise building, elite buildings. « The hot season » preparations for cold winter holidays begins. The city on the sly changes, more increasing and starts to resemble a fairy tale more. And the christmas fairy tale begins in the street - here and now, long before approach of Christmas.
Christmas fur-trees put one month prior to a holiday. Christmas inscriptions - and that earlier. However, «Christmas” on reduction “X-mas” personally I do not accept replacement of a word , as our savior assimilates to a variable "kh", i.e. uncertainty. A top of a fur-tree decorate with usually eight-final star. The prototype of this star – Vifleemskaya a star. Though happens, that attach a five-pointed star, a huge red bow or an angel. Other christmas-tree decorations - similar to ours: spheres, « a silver rain », icicles, handbells, parchovye bantiki, snowflakes, angels, zveryushki, snowballs, a tinsel from a foil, fur-tree suspension brackets. Are welcomed and vintazhnye compositions, - brass, cardboard, self-made sets of fur-tree toys. Unless socks and stockings on our elegant wood beauty you will not see. And here it(this) simply to not manage. By tradition gifts, spryatannye in multi-coloured packing boxes, put either under a fur-tree, or in a stocking which hangs above a fireplace. It is considered, that sani Santa Klausa stop on a roof of the house near a chimney, through which it goes down downwards on a flue with the bag (less often through window leaves of houses), gets in a drawing room and hides a souvenir in a stocking. In the USA and Canada the children puts on a fireplace cookies and a glass of milk for dear and favourite tolstyachka, the donator of gifts. It is fashionable to hang up on a fur-tree plastic santovskie canes of different size. And striped karamelnye sweets in the form of a staff usually cling to a fur-tree in very plenty to involve visitors in « a christmas tree » and to enable them to try edible sugar ornaments, not having forgotten thus polakomit small members of household, moreover and it is desirable, that remains « on then ». Attractive white-red sugar candies and karameli symbolize as well our Messiah. It is enough to turn a staff, and before us a latin capital letter of its name Jesus.
From balconies of houses bunches(beams) multi-coloured migalochek hang down, owners of cottages decorate the strekhi and a handrail with flickering bulbs. Garlands dress up fur-trees and the cypresses growing in a court yard, and, certainly, do not forget about naked illusive trees, whether it be near the house or on a roadside. Decorate offices, streets and show-windows of shops. Thus use not only electric garlands, but also light-emitting diodes. In shopping centers there are elegant fur-trees; coniferous vetochkami with tiny bulbs ceilings are decorated. At times so it is a lot of textures, that ceilings become green. Then, there there are the mini-columns constructed of fur-tree spheres of different diameters (up to 1) – indeed christmas constructions. Somewhere snowflakes are turned, and under them fur-trees cost white, brought by a snow; and somewhere easy(light), voluminous boas, sshitye from white feathers hang. On counters flaunt not only dwarfish elochki in flowerpots, but also and Rozhdestvenniki (Christmas Сactus). And Mexican ornamental plants puansettiya the Finest c purple leaves deserve special attention. Even the ignorant buyer will notice, that the arrangement of red blades reminds Vifleemskuyu a star.
On greater(big) screens of the liquid crystal and plasma TVs established(installed) on a gate of shopping centers and inside of premises(rooms), there is a holiday advertising. The most rating advertising roller repeating from year to year: santa-¬½áÒß in an environment of herd of deers drinks pair milk. And it would be desirable to follow to its(his) example. Songs, such as “ Jingle bells flow ";" Silver bells ";" Oh, my lord "(" Mary’s boy child ”); “ Santa Claus is coming to town ";" Feliz Navidad ";" It’s the most wonderful time of the year ";" Let it snow ";" Oh, Christmas Tree ";" Silent night ”, grown fond from a school bench to many compatriots who have finishedlicea with an English bias, or visited domestic clubs “ Let’s speak English ”. The christmas furniture appears in parks and gardens. In cities of a province Quebec some owners of supermarkets and their assistants manage to set up a prickly christmas symbol on a roof or on kozyrek one-storeyed construction, and the more such symbols above, the better. In narrow and old ulochkakh Quebec-city lengthways frantsuzsko-квебекских boutiques alive prickly trees with aroma of needles which are shone by the magnificent polar lights at night suddenly grow . The city Toronto located to the south, does not concede in an ingenuity – fragrant harmonous konusovidnye symbols sparkle poured southern light. Continuous blank walls of factories, factories, bases - too get a celebratory kind. Scenery are constructed, deers on all huge wall are made, christmas elements – head Santy, snowflakes, asterisks, inscriptions-wishes gather in original compositions. All this okonturivaetsya electric multi-colour garlands. Under the motto « Art attacks » christmas cards on walls and roofs of structures are created . Thus, to usual night galogenkam are added also celebratory fires. All colors and paints are reflected in winter crystal. The city enchantling spectacle grows.
In good time decorate garages and loggias, hanging out patten garlands in the form of snowflakes, wreaths, lentochek, vetochek, letters. So the short French word “NOEL” can be noticed on walls and a gate not only in Montreal and Quebec-city, but also in English-speaking Toronto. It is possible to lose gift of speech, having seen illumination of some cottages: the running point, an extending wave, switchings-alternations of the electric ornaments, a rich palette of the paints, shone plastic candles, - from small on window sills up to greater at podnozhy palaces. A projector not only shine a facade of the house, but also change color of a snow, doing its that red, dark blue, yellow. Bulbs on bushes under caps of a prickly snow with soft and warm light shades are fantastically looked .
On stone pedestals and verandahs cost Santa Klausy and the snowballs shined from within. At the some people - the hands lifted and dissolved in the parties; a pier, approach, the open and hot embraces to you are provided. It was necessary to see and such picture: the plastic Snowball-giant costs in the center of a court yard, and around of it(him) khorovodyat amusing snegovichki. It is fashionable to decorate court yard with electric staffs Santy with the built in bulbs: they are thrust around of beds, on perimeter of the Alpine hills, instead of pegs. Other observable variant with use of this attribute: inflatable three-meter staffs in hands Santa Klausa and in paws gullivernykh penguins. Fantazijnaya an inflatable gigantomania! However, some tell-tales filled by air (bodyguards Santy) have tilted, other guards of the order have bent down and even have caved in in details. "Have striked", - hasty passers-by joke. « Yes! Have taken with all the heart », - gapers echo. « Welcome visitors », - travellers-motorists approve.
That me has pleasantly surprised and has warmed soul, so this returning to bible stsenkam. In a front garden the shed is located; there sit Maria and Joseph, and between them baby Jesus in a day nursery. All this is shined by projectors so figures are precisely visible. Executions: black-and-white and color. The subjects often repeats from a court yard to a court yard. Some pious owners establish the longest shined(covered) canopies along the private residences and develop the given religious subjects. In the center there is a born Jesus, behind – the angels who have gone down on the ground, on the right and at the left, besides the basic characters, volkhvy, worshipping to the newborn Christ and gifts presenting to it; pets wander also; shepherds come nearer to the Messiah. Figures much, all is issued beautifully. At times it seems, that parishioners compete in quantity of characters and thought up postanovochnykh the staff. So, at one, angels have come nearer to the Young Virgin, at others – they behind on a height, and at the third – hang on trees (indeed from heavens go down). In this key the imagination and skill gush forth with interest, not having in advance ordered ramok. The national front pictures established and developed on a December green grass, bewitch also the sanctity warm. Well, directly stages from church performance. If all this to actuate by means of an electricity the present den would turn out. The
author: Viorika CHUMAK
*Photos are executed by the author of article
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