I started this puzzle a few days before Christmas, and finished on New Year’s Eve. It was a difficult one! The birds went together fairly easy, but all the foliage was much harder. Reminded me a lot of the Birds in Fern puzzle. How all the darker background doesn’t really come together until you actually have pieces in place. Hard to visualize when they’re scattered. Funny, my first thought looking at the picture on the box was: that’s not a real Christmas tree! There’s branches in there from cedar, fir and four or five other evergreen species. However once I was trying to put it together, the difference in foliage types was a real asset. If it had all been one kind of branch, that would have made this so much harder and I might not have finished. It did get a bit maddening towards the end. What with all the same-shape pieces it came down to just trying every piece in every spot. There ought to be a puzzler’s term for that strategy, ha.
Finished size 30 x 24″.
