Sara sends this gridded vehicle card from the National Council of Teachers of English convention in the mile-high city. She reports that 19 books are returning home with her. Nearly as many as the number of cars on this card.
A thing you will need to know: Kelly’s birthday is August 6
This handsome fella arrived on November 6, all the way from South Africa!
Friend Kelly visited Botswana and South Africa. She sent her hello from the first place she found postcards: the airport in Gaborone. Her next quest was to find stamps and a mailbox, which she said would be in Cape Town.
Where has this postcard been for so many months?
Perhaps it’s because she put the stamp on upside down?
I can’t read the postmark other than the year.
Kelly had a great time in Botswana and South Africa. By the time I got the postcard, I had seen all her pictures.
Sara sent this from Scotland and it’s dated 8/29/25. I can’t read the postmark, but let’s assume it’s from early September at the latest.
So this postcard has been hanging out in that Postcard Void that the readers of this blog are all so familiar with.
Sara writes that she enjoyed these pieces and thought I would like it too because it’s all embroidery. They are by Phoebe Anna Traquair and the pieces are (I assume) a collected work called The Progress of a Soul, with each individual piece named the Entrance, the Stress, Despair, and the Victory.
I especially enjoy Despair.
Here’s the stamp.
Sara wrote part of the postcard on a bus to Stirling Castle. Apparently the whole wedding crew were traveling together on a coach and a van. It’s about 75 guests, so a big crowd.
Sara sent me a postcard from Arcata that traveled home with her from Scotland.
She reports that she brought home more traditional stationary from the place where they stayed while in Scotland for her cousin’s wedding but thought a quick “hi!” might be nice.
It was!
I enjoy these retro-style postcards.
Sara says that tomorrow (8/25) is the first day of classes. And that she and Shawn leave for Scotland on 8/26.
The final episode!
Both Ariel and I agreed that it wasn’t a very good show, but that it also somehow wormed it’s way in and we would like more.
Ariel would like more Cheyenne and her mom, Genvieve, and Nicholas dancing.
While at the de Young, Sara really liked this painting by Richard Diebenkom.
I love when a favorite painting is also represented in postcard in gift shops!
Thanks to the Humboldt fog, Sara’s plane could not land and was routed back to SFO. She got to spend the night in San Francisco. She went to the de Young museum for some good art the next day before her flight.
Sara writes:
Seems like…
…MIXED messaging!
Also that Pocatello was hot, but that it was fun to see family.
Ariel reports that she’s enjoying the dancing in the show Etoile, and loves that Cheyenne, the very tough and dismissive French ballerina, loves the Nutcracker. I also enjoyed that plot point.
She also says that she hurt a disk in her neck, making watching TV painful.
