A bear cub peeks over a log at the top of the card, pine branches and cones frame the sides, and the headline is lettered in forest green. The card suits a couple hosting together as much as a mom on her own, and a cabin or a backyard with trees just as well.
Names, the Sunday afternoon and the place go in, and the family and friends who will meet the new cub get it that evening. Greens and browns work for a boy or a girl and look right from fall through early spring.
Carry the woods inside: a honey cake or a chocolate log, hot cider or cocoa, a plaid blanket on the table, a few pine cones among the plates, and a diaper raffle by the fire. A short afternoon, good coffee, and a bear on the cake is all it needs.
