Here They Are, The Winners Of This Year's Edition Of Scence's Holiday Card Contest!

Here they are, the winners of this year's edition of Scene's Holiday Christmas Card Contest - two great cards, from Angel Turk of Bellevue and Bruce Moburg of Seattle.

In addition, we're showing you more of our favorites - runners-up, which we've been doing all week in Scene, chosen from among the scores of cards we received. As a body of work, this year's entries make up the best batch we've ever seen, so thank you, all of you, for the fun, the wonderful ideas and for thinking of us - including all you repeaters who've been entering for years.

Yes, we'll be back next year. So gain inspiration from these if you must, and plunge on to higher heights!

Merry Christmas, and we'll see lots of you old-timers and, we hope, lots of new entrants next year. Now, enjoy these.

A wise and kingly greeting

Our first winner is Angela Turk of Bellevue. She may be the only one driving around the Eastside who's not putting on makeup or using a cell phone. She's writing music. She recomposed the words to "We Three Kings," behind the wheel, and then very nicely added the music so her family and friends could play along. She used a portrait of the family she'd had taken a while back (those are sons Logan, top, and Hunter), the song sheet format and won our contest! Nice job, Turks. They were runners-up years ago. So, see, persistence and creativity do pay off!

They `yoost go nuts at Christmas'

Bruce Moburg is our other winner. Yes, yes, we know that for many of you this is not in keeping with the season. But we get so much sweetness and light in this contest every year that we thought we finally had to give a tip of the hat to a bit of the irreverence - and to a card that's very funny. Moburg's an artist, and over the years you may have seen some of his things hanging around town. This card was inspired by someone only natives will know and love - Stan Boreson, the accordion-toting funnyman from long-ago KING-TV. Actually, it was Boreson's "I yoost go nuts at Christmas" that evoked the table terrors. Now come on, somebody in your lives must have done just a little something like this.

'Twas the Night Before . . .

Colleen Maloney of Kent gathered up a couple years' worth of photos and events and with the help of friend Susan Stoddard weaved them into this little book, a takeoff on " 'Twas The Night Before Christmas." A lot of work, we think. It was, Colleen assured us. In fact, this is last year's card. What is she doing this year? "Nothing." We don't blame her. We'd be tired, too.

Wise guy in Snohomish

Roy Hughes of Snohomish did this one. He's made cards before, but this one, says wife Jeanie Goodhope, is just about her favorite. Those are computerized shepherds on the cover, and the message inside you can see. Clever people out there in Snohomish! Thanks, folks.

Let the computer do the writing

Eight-year-old Tessa Code of Seattle did the drawing and the writing and mom Mary helped her put it all together. Inside, in formal computer penmanship, the card reads "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2000," and on the back, "This computerized approach was so easy . . . we'll probably send you a card next year, too!" A nice idea; we'd be happy to get one.

What is all that white stuff?

Margaretta Reid has been sending out her Christmas poems for nearly 50 years, each one an original written especially for that holiday. We like this one a lot, a card she sent to family and friends a few years back. Reid's husband died this year, so the 1999 version included a more serious message. She didn't want to send us that one, saying instead that the funny plea for a safe-and-sane holiday journey was more in keeping with the rest of the light-hearted contest entries. To talk to Reid about her poems and her life, even for a few minutes, is about all the Christmas lift you'll need. "It's going to be a better year next year," she told us. Merry Christmas, Margaretta, and thank you.

The prancing and pawing of each tiny foot . . .

These "feets" (left to right) belong to Carol Edmondson, Bodger Edmondson and Larry Kida of Seattle. Husband and wife Carol and Larry (aren't you relieved?) took the photo at Ocean Shores last fall, a month before Bodger died. He was a pretty good guy, they wrote. Nice way to honor his memory. And pretty funny card to boot.

Darryl and his other brother would be proud

Patti Adamich and her pals Ellis and Lee Adams, all of them from Seattle, put together a little Christmas poem and book and sent us a copy. It included many photos, like this one of the brothers Adams, taken all over town. They were doing some wonderful and odd and, um, er . . . not-for-publication-in-a-family-newspaper things. We chose this selection from among many in their book. By the way, this is last year's card. They're still working on this year's. Something about one of the brothers bringing home a 30-foot personal submarine. We stopped the conversation right there.

Put that sock on - it's cold up there

That's Adam Christoffersen, and the mountain underneath him is Mount McKinley in Alaska. It's a long story, mom Kathy says from their home in Edmonds, but that stocking represents the family's long tradition of Hawaiian Christmas vacations. She did just a bit of coercing to get Adam to take it with him so they'd have a Christmas card to send out. See, Adam, she was right. You're in the newspaper!

Greetings from Roswell

Karin Edenholm, a self-admitted alien freak from Seattle, sent us this one. She spent vacation this year looking for aliens. She didn't find any, but had this photo taken of herself and something that passes for an alien in Roswell, N.M. - need we say more, alien lovers? So, how have the recipients of this year's card reacted? "Nobody was real surprised," she said. "I don't know if that's good or bad."

The 'toons send greetings

The Hennick teens, Sandy and Diana of Lake Forest Park, produced their own version of the latest cartoon rage from Japan and presented it as this year's family holiday card. We like it because it's a twist on what we usually get: real humans and cardboard pets. At least the cat made it in alive! The dog didn't because it apparently would not sit still.

How did they get through customs?

Yes, we do get at least one Conehead shot a year. But this one - not only are they "from France," but look at that huge cone in the background! It's what? Oh. OK. Sheri and Derek Hay of Lynnwood sent us this one. They take their heads wherever they go, which we think is a good thing. We mean the Coneheads.

Christmas decorating in France

Priscilla Thornberg is another holiday card repeater. And she does the most bodacious things! Here, she's insulting the French! Well, not really. She visited Lascaux, saw the famous cave paintings and an idea was born - thanks to some superimposed images and clever sons-in-law. Last year she was being chased by a polar bear. What's next, Priscilla? We want to come along!

It's a topsy-turvy holiday

Esther Joneson's daughters, Rose and Cricket, thought Mom had a pretty dumb idea for a card, until she brought up the idea of putting on a little lipstick. Then, the deed was done. And they came up with this. Chins up, Jonesons! Nice idea.

Dressing for the holidays

These are the Genets of Seattle - David, Emma and Kathy (and Max, inside, who showed up 10 weeks later). They report family and friends got busy dressing and even cross-dressing the little group, once the card arrived. Yes, including David's 5 o'clock shadow.

Repeat this 2000 times

OK, so we're suckers for the name game thing. This was our favorite. The Lims from Seattle and their mil-LIM-nium! card. (Say that a few thousand times.) We like it even better that they won't be able to use their name that way again for another 1,000 years! We also wonder whether this contest will still be going.