Day: October 14, 2025

SKS from Scotland

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.

New Driver License

Back in October 2016, I got a new driver license (pictured below on the right) because it had been eight years, and my current license was going to expire. A few months later in 2017, I was told I needed to get another new driver license and soon, because the Real ID was going to be needed for travel.

“Pah to that!” I said, and got a passport so I could use my not-Real ID license for its full time period.

Well, the deadline to travel with a Real ID was extended and extended, and if I’d been a May birthday instead of an October, I could have used that license for the full eight years because May 2025 was the real, true, final deadline (although I read that they would let people through if they didn’t have a Real ID after May…).

I didn’t do any flying between the real, true, actual deadline in May and today, and so I met my goal of getting the full eight years out of my license.

Here’s to the new one on the left. So very shiny and Real ID.