For someone facing her first Christmas without a person she loved, a red cardinal says what a card cannot, because so many families take one as a sign that the person is still near. This one is glass with the feathers worked into its surface, a deep mottled red dusted with snow, perched on a birch branch set with pine and red berries. Kurt S. Adler, Inc. makes it in two poses. Choose the pose you want, give it with a note about who it is for, or keep one back for your own tree.

Each item sold separately. Each order includes one in your selected design.

• Side Profile: perched sideways along the branch, tail raised
• Facing Forward: standing upright on a birch perch, with pine and red berries at its feet
• Glass, 4.25 to 5.5 inches depending on the pose, gold cap, twine hanger