Category: Mail

Dana brought me this postcard from Norway.  She and her husband took a trip there this summer.  They loved it, and, among other things, discovered that Dana’s family comes from an area that is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It’s Baby Bear by Kandir Nelson.  From Sara who is a fan.  She postcarded to chat about her day.  I postcarded her back.

This is from Jacob.  He’s a 30-year-old graduate student studying both neuroscience and psychology.  That sounds interesting.

From Lidia.  Her hobbies are travel, work in the garden, knit and patchwork.  

Look at the great needlework stamp with the extra bonus of fringy edges.

Here is a postcard of an ink and watercolour piece called “Cascade II[iii] from Chaomin who is a 21-year-old from China studying in Singapore.  She’s in Environmental Engineering.

The Russian postcard came with a beautiful envelope.  Less blurry pictures to follow.

Look at the stamps!  And the cancellations!

And the drawing on the front!

Here is the postcard from Nina.  I am the first Postcrossing person she sent a postcard to.  So exciting!  She is a teacher in a secondary school and she likes her work, reports that the school year will begin in two days.  Her favorite quote, which she wrote out and translated for me is:  You are rich when you don’t need anything, not when you have many things (much money).

It was a very cool mail day.

This is from Cindy, you know, the one who just got married.  She writes that she loves Amsterdam–calls it “perhaps the greatest city ever!”  It does look pretty great.

I love they shiny cheerfulness of this snail postcard.  So pretty.  Tina sent me a quote:  “The paths of friendship shall be walked often or they will grow rampant.”

Hey look, it’s Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut who is from Svetlana’s region.  I don’t think I ever knew what he looked like.

Here’s an actual postrcossing postcard, not one from my friends. This postcard is from Diana, who tells me that this is the Riverwalk at Christmas, but that San Antonio also has a Sea World and several large Army and Air Force Bases.  As I’ve not been to San Antonio, this is handy to know.

This arrived after the naked hiker, but was written before.  It’s from Sara too.  She was loving Norway.
 

I experimented with trying to trick people in to thinking I’d been to the fjords myself by taking a picture of the postcard, but I’m working with a different camera (great sad story there, which I won’t tell now) so I couldn’t get a crisp shot.