snow in summer

Australia's sentimental attachment to snow-themed Xmas cards despite the Summer heat can be seen in this 1950's example from the wine nostalgia site:

This is the Barossa Valley au naturel in late December (source)
You know - sans snow sans sleigh sans ho ho ho

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Comments: snow in summer

our Clare Valley wines could send out snowy christmas pamphlets, with tenuous justification:

http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:1084/search/dclare+snow/dclare+snow/1,1,3,B/l856&FF=dclare+snow+south+australia&3,,3,1,0
Posted by kent at December 18, 2004 01:58 AM

(and I won't have any cynics telling me that photo wasn't taken in december 1901.)
Posted by kent at December 18, 2004 02:00 AM

Touche.
That's a find!

(I went down the wrong track looking for christmas parties but my evidence was inconclusive anyway. This could well have been taken in July)
http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:1084/search/.b1067251/.b1067251/1,1,1,B/l856~1067251&FF=&1,0,,1,0
Posted by boynton at December 18, 2004 10:58 AM