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A fireplace mantel, with candles and holly

Lots of rectangles, some circled

Find the hidden holiday message.

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The two images

are the same size.

If we

put the second one over the first one, it seems to form six-packs of dots. enter image description here

So we

interpret the six-packs as braille. Six-packs grouped by a circle are all combined. enter image description here

As noneuclideanisms points out

the leaves form semaphore patterns. enter image description here

All together the hidden holiday message is

I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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  • $\begingroup$ rot13(v oryvrir gur yrnirf pna nyfb or vagrecergrq nf frzncuber) $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 0:57
  • $\begingroup$ @noneuclideanisms Nice, now it makes more sense. I'll add that in... $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 1:07
  • $\begingroup$ Congrats, you got it! $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 1:45
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    $\begingroup$ (And I didn’t mean for the “X UN” to be there, I think it was just a random pattern that happened to look like the letters lol) $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 21, 2024 at 1:45

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