Merry Christmas?

The Easter weekend is coming, but here in Canada (in my part anyway) it's unseasonably cold, so it feels like that other holiday.
And what says celebration better than a Christmas bat?

Hmmm?
That well known Festive symbol, the bat!

Well, if you are in the tropics, you don't have Christmas trees, sleighs, snow, holly, mistletoe and even traditional images of Santa are a bit off given all that cold weather gear. There are no fireplaces, and therefore no stockings hung on them. What's left? Bats, I say. ;o)

Rudolf the Red-nosed Rainforest Bat?

all these silly comments are going to lower your batting average jamesw and you manage to post them without batting an eyelash.

just feeling festive

me too as long as you get my bat(ting) references.

Now, don't give jamesw a battering, Jhlovell, this isn't combat! We'll send you on sabbatical if you don't stop these battles!

james, you must have been up all night playing with stamps and starting to go batty yourself. As far as the bat being Rudolph the red-nosed bat, I think it might be a vampire bat if you are seeing red.

I love it!

If you look closer...

What's batty is religion.

Way to kill the mood, Moonbird.

Seriously, why would you put a bat on a Christmas stamp.

I think Moonbird has the right idea, really. We are talking about an explicitly communist and atheistic government (whether you could apply those terms to the Cuban society as a whole may be a more complex argument). As a result, you have a country with a long christian tradition and a communist leadership.

So . . . you cannot gloss over Christmas by not having a Christmas stamp, but at the same time Christian symbology is not permitted, so instead they turned to the next logical subject matter - mother nature.