This is from Manuela, who lives in the Black Forest region of Germany. Her favorite quote is, “A smile has no accent.” I really like both the quote and the postcard.
Category: Mail
Postcard exchange
It only takes one ladder and 20 minutes to switch out the postcards. I don’t know why I procrastinate so much. This round is dominated by friends and not Postcrossing friends, because I took the summer off from Postcrossing and the friends really came through with the postcards.
Postcard from Tennessee
Anna from Tennessee sent this very pretty postcard with a great TYPED quote on the back. Well done, Anna. Now I want to get a manual typewriter so I can type my Postcrossing postcards.
Postcard from Montana
Friend Sue is not just a classmate from Cottey Class of ’95, she’s also a talented ceramic artist. I hope someday to attend her spring studio sale. This year you got 20% off if you dressed for the Derby.
Postcard from China
This is from Peifang who lives in China. She hopes I will like her card. I did, as I think Expos are very interesting things. I’m hoping to go to one someday. This card also included pretty stamps.
And a handy explanation of the World Expo 2010 emblem.
Postcard from Pennsylvania
This is from Heather who reports that it was not snow at Valley Forge, it was 73 degrees. She enjoyed the Freemason symbols hidden about.
Postcard from Russia
This is from Irina, who visited Nice last year. Irina includes three facts:
1. Recently I ran a crossfit group. I lift and squat.
2. I’m 29 years old. My boyfriend younger than me for 10 years.
3. Now I’m reading the 1984 by George Orwell
I found all these facts quite interesting. Especially that Crossfit is in Russia.
Postcard from the Netherlands
This is from Astrid (one of my favorite names) and she includes the quote “Change the world, start by yourself” Astrid visited Cinque Terre and will go back this year.
Postcards from Louisana, Texas, and three from Pennsylvania.
Regular commenter Heather sent me a passel of postcards from her travels. Here they are.
This is from the stopover in New Orleans where the Wolf Pack rode one of these carriages through the French Quarter.
Everyone’s favorite Pennsylvania town: Intercourse. Heather also lists other dubious names in the area: Bird-in-hand, Blue Ball, Paradise, Virginville, Smoketown and Mountville.
Here’s a pretty one from Texas. This is where they celebrated L’s fourth birthday.
I do very much enjoy unusual recipe postcards. Perhaps someday I will make myself a shoo-fly pie. I notice that this recipe card makes two pies. That’s a lot of shoe-fly pie.
I love this incredibly long laundry line. I wonder if they hang their unmentionables somewhere else?
Postcard from the Czech Republic
This if from Alexandr, who lives in Hrebec which is near Prague in the Czech Republic. He reports that he is a graphic designer, 40 (like me!) and has two sons. (not like me!) Interestingly, he was born in Siberia, much like the Postcrossers who sent me the postcard from Chicago.