Meteorological winter lasts from December 1 through February 28 each year, while astronomical winter lasts from the winter solstice around December 21 through the spring equinox around March 20.
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, that’s a lot of cold, dark, and snow, and it’s just gotten started.
To combat that, the next three months of Full Spectrum posts will put a happier spin on the Winter Blues and feature all the models in my collection that are literally the color blue. Of all the decorator options out there, blue models are what I am most drawn to, so I have quite a few of them. Today’s post will feature the blue filigree winter decorators.
This is #712256 Benasque, the blue filigree winter decorator from 2018. There were 350 made. I was lucky enough to be drawn to purchase him from the first round and couldn't pay for him fast enough. I show him on occasion; his show name is Andorra, after the country located in the Pyrenees mountains, which is just over a hundred miles from the town of Benasque. (See what I mean about nerdy naming conventions?)
Five years after the smashing success of Benasque, Breyer released this guy, #712504 Vail, as their winter decorator. Despite the significantly higher piece count (1000 models), I wasn’t lucky enough to get drawn for him. My friend Kelly K was, though, and she offered to let me buy him at cost. He and Benasque lived right next to each other on the shelf until my count of Totilas models more than doubled in July when they used him as this year’s BreyerFest surprise model, and I had to do some serious rearranging.
I wouldn’t mind if one of the blue filigree Prince Charming chase piece Stablemates or the blue filigree Andalusian Foal from the La Molina and Masella set made its way into my collection someday, though I’m not actively looking for either one at the moment.
In January’s Full Spectrum, I’ll talk about my other blue Traditional & Classic scale models, and in February, I’ll show the blue Stablemates.
"Ah Got da Blues!" You are certainly not alone in being drawn to the blue horses. I pursued them strongly in the 2000s. I once entered a Collector's Class using that title, and how delightful it was to get first place. Space, funds and other interests have limited me since then; but I do have Vail, named Polar Vortex.
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