Sara got this postcard at the one and only SPAM Museum, located in Austin, Minnesota, also known as SPAM TOWN USA. Sara has actually visited this marvelous place.
She says she tried several types of SPAM and they were all nasty.
This card also include the delightful message, “Nothing says FRIEND like a can of SPAM in the mail.”
Too true, Sara. Too true.
This is from the only hotel Frank Lloyd Wright designed that is still operating as a hotel. Super cool! Sara and Shawn are very good at finding cool things on their trips.
Sara reports that it was fun to stay in the only Historic Suite and get a taste of what a 1910-era couple’s visit would have been like.
Two days later, all postcards are reunited. Here are postcards #2 and #3 of the trio. Where were postcards #2 and #3 while #1 was speeding toward me? One never knows.
Sara reports that she’s had a bit busier summer than usual, hence her lack of social media participation of late. However, she is halfway through the course she’s adjuncting.
This is my other favorite style of postcard. The letters of the name filled with highlights of the place. Of the things pictured on this postcard, I’ve seen two: the state capitol building and Spoonbridge and Cherry.
What a nice postcard trio.
Here’s one of my favorite postcard styles: highlights of the city. Interestingly, many Postcrossers don’t like this style, a fact that indicates the relative picky nature of people who exchange postcards internationally.
This postcard is part of a trio, so Sara writes on the back, but its mates weren’t to be found in my mailbox today.
Sara also reports that she picked up new postcard stamps featuring seashells. She wishes for the birds to come back. This is a big wish for Sara, as she doesn’t like birds. I’m right there with her wish as the seashells are not that great. Unfortunately, with postcard stamps, there’s not a choice.
A place where we have both visited together! Also, apparently Shawn picked this card. I’m not sure if he picked it out at the store, or picked it as the one for Sara to write to me, but either way, good pick.
Sara reports that summer is hard this year due to lack of people. So she is taking herself to a coffee shop to do some work. Tangential people are better than nothing.
Sara sent this one from her ICQI conference. It arrived covered in–something? Mud? It’s a very sticky, sandy mud. It also smells a little like food. I’m not sure what it is. And on what part of the journey did this happen?
Sara remarks that this campus is truly lovely. It looks to be, from this vantage point.
Sara wrote this on 5/13/18 which she pointed out is 5+13=18. She often does fun things with dates, which is left over from her time as a classroom teacher.
This is the last of the creepy diorama postcards from New York City and I find this one to be less creepy, possibly due to the character’s face turned away, and the red hue. I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to be learning from this diorama though. Photo developing in a pre-digital era? I’m already familiar with that, having taken photography in ninth grade, but perhaps people younger than me wouldn’t be.
I think the last time I rotated the postcards was 2015. I remember doing it on the weekend before I started my job at Sabin, having just quit the Emerson School. Let’s look back at the blog and see if I’m right. Indeed! It has been more that 2.5 years!
So here is the new setup. Once I was done I realized I put them up in the wrong order, so the oldest are on the second row, right side, and then they work their way to the newest, which are the top row, left side.
Matt’s only question was “Where did the PCC come from?” As chronicled here, they were from Sara, and they look great on the wall, just as she imagined.
This is a great postcard from Sara which she picked up at a NYC street fair. It’s an advertising postcard–the back is full of details about the artist, but Sara has covered most of those details with blank address labels, so she can write me.
Sara reports she’s made it to the last day of the semester! Hooray for that!
If you want to see more from this artist, her website is www.bicyclepaintings.com
I got a very fun postcard invitation of Cindy’s parents’s anniversary. In strange happenstance, they are also expecting their first grandchild this year. Here’s a delightful post from 2013 where Matt and I attended Cindy’s wedding.
I also got a fun postcard from Sara. She got it at the Red Balloon Children’s Bookstore because she LOVES Jane Mount, the illustrator. I was not familiar with Jane Mount, or Ideal Bookshelf, but it seems to be a good way to celebrate books.
