Category: Mail

Down with the old, up with the new!  I think they look great!

This is from Alla.  She heard my call for pictures of libraries (it’s listed on my profile) and apologized that she didn’t have a picture of a library, but instead sent this girl reading.  But I adore this card, so we’re good.

The stamps are interesting too.

From Gerd who lives near Stuttgart. It was 15 degrees Celsius when he wrote.

From my friend Sue, who makes amazing ceramics and has a delightful horse named Mabel. If you are around Livingston, Montana and it’s the day of the Kentucky Derby, you should stop by for Sue’s Spring Sale.  Afterward, you can soak in the hot springs nearby.

From Maryann who lives in the small town of Dyurtyuli in Russia.  She sends me this postcard of Moscow, but has never been there before.  That makes two of us!  The stamps are fun too!

It’s New Year’s/Easter greetings from regular commentor Sara and occasional commentor Shawn.  And I make an appearance on this year’s card!  Can you find me?  It seems I’m actually on the card twice, but was smeared out by the mailing process. Aside from playing the guitar with Sara, I’m also to the left of Archie the cat on the bottom-middle of the card.

And now we can officially put 2015 to a close!

These cute sleeping cats come via Taiwan from Salty.  Salty reports that Taiwan is a beautiful country.  I do not doubt that.  Interestingly, this postcard came with a plastic sleeve around it.  The stamp had been cancelled on the postcard, not the sleeve, so someone went to the trouble to slip off the sleeve, cancel the stamp and then replace the sleeve.  I find this very interesting. 

This is from regular commentor Sara who visited the Faribault Woolen Mill Company during her spring break.  She had a good time on that trip.

This is from Jennifer who encourages me to make a visit to the park.  I have not yet visited, but hopefully will eventually.  Jennifer also tells me that “I wish I could travel without need of wealth!”  She also includes a PS saying that Oregon Rocks, which was very nice.

This is a very beautiful postcard and I like best how it smeared a little in the mail so it looks as if there is a UFO in the upper left corner.

This is from Natalia who sends the following quote by famous stage director Nikita Mikhalkov:

The essence of the Russian “people determines, on the one hand, the hope for a miracle, and on the other hand, the belief that all is not the power to decide but compassion, kindness, contemplation, compassion.”

I must say that I enjoy very much this postcard which purports to be–according to the back–The Cafhedral[sic] of the Elevation of the Cross in the Yuriev Monastery 1823.  But it actually seems to be a picture of a boulder in a field, with the cathedral off in the far distance.

Please turn your head sideways to see this postcard which is from Shannon, who lives only 95 miles away from me. One of her three facts is my favorite fact I’ve received so far:  I love waterfall mist on my face.