For those of us in the northern hemisphere (or at least the US), Christmas imagery is almost synonymous with winter imagery. Snow, evergreen trees, holly with red berries, even Santa in a fur-lined suit, even in the South, where we're terribly unlikely to see anything in real life that will ever fit that description.

Obviously for those of you in the southern hemisphere where Christianity is as prevalent as it is in North America and Europe, what is Christmas imagery like? I mean, it's summer down there. All the winter imagery would seem out of place to me.

The reason I ask in particular is that I recently got a Christmastime catalog in the mail from a company that sells ostensibly Kiwi-made merchandise and it had a picture on the cover that seemed to imply that it was a New Zealand sheep farm, but there was snow on the ground and a Christmas wreath hanging on the split-rail fence. So it was either not New Zealand or it was not Christmastime.