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This is a very pretty ad card for this event in Northern Idaho.

Sara says hello from finals week in Arcata. She is excited for the semester to be done.

Sara sent this painting of a girl taking a nap (the text on the back with information about the painting is too small for me to read, and I don’t want to go and find the magnifying glass). As a fan of naps, I’m all for this picture.

Then we have the well known Renoir (which I know both because it’s famous and because the explanatory information is in a readable font.)

Both postcards arrived on the same day (!). Sara reports that she found these postcards while updating her office, which made room for all the books she is going to read for Notables.

Sara sent this postcard after her return from her North Carolina visit. The barcode sticker is blocking the crucial information that this is a postcard about the UNC Libraries, always a fun thing to visit. She was correct that the postcard would make a fun send.

Sara really liked the campus (she called it stunning) and the flora (the cherries and tulip magnolias were in bloom) and the food (biscuits at three different meals and okra at two). Overall, a great trip for her.

I returned from my vacation to find that Sara had sent me a postcard from her sister trip to North Carolina. Jessie and Sara were visiting their cousin.

I quite like this colored pencil drawing by Egon Schiele, which the internet tells me was done the same year as his death at 28: 1918. Also nice, the washi tape Sara got at the museum store and included on the other side of the postcard.

This postcard has a very nice texture to it.

Sara reports that the weather has retreated to coastal winter after some spring-like behavior. She also laments the current state of US democracy.

I received all three postcards on the same day (amazing!), and I skipped looking at the picture on the front so I could instead read what Sara had written on the back. I read that Sara’s cousin had gotten her this lovely package of chairs (12 in total), and I wondered why the cousin would give her such a large gift. Also, did Sara want 12 chairs?

The confusion was cleared up when I looked at the front and discovered, that what I was reading as chairs was actually chai, as in tea. 12 is a much more reasonable number in that case.

Sara reports that there is an atmospheric river happening, and that she’s enjoying 50 so far.

Sara was on a 50th birthday jaunt, and I got these postcards out of the trip.

Fun quiz question. What do you think is the postmark on a card mailed from the Napa Valley? Answer below.

With this postcard, Sara had just been to the bookstore and sent a hello.

Sara reports that the London Fogs at the Retrograde Coffee Roasters are quite nice. Also that the sunny weather with temperatures in the high 50s is a good combo for a weekend celebrating the entrance into one’s fifties.

Answer: These are postmarked Oakland. Is that what you guessed?

Look at this fun postcard! Post boxes are one of those things I’m not aware that are not universal. I mean, I am, because of Postcrossing and travel, but it’s one of those utilitarian things that seems to be more about function than form.

Sara reports that she ordered this set from an Etsy shop (based in Eagle, Idaho!) and that it’s was her first official day of the semester. The semester has started off well.

She also commented that she needed more postcards like she needs a hole in her toe and, looking at my 12 inches of shelf space dedicated to postcards, I can relate.

This is a fun card, and the second in a row with the word “hello.”

Sara reports that she just opened my Christmas present and loved it. She correctly observed that I probably will know this by the time I get the postcard because she sent me a Marco Polo of her opening it.

She’s also still recovering from the flu, which she caught as she came home from Coeur d’Alene.

Sara added some stickers to this postcard. It made for a fun presentation. Fun fact: I have a duplicate of this postcard (sans stickers) displayed on my wall. You can see it in this post.

The Spokane postmark tells me that this came from Coeur d’Alene. Sara reports that they are doing some cleaning and organizing and that she found some Christmas stamps back from when stamps were 37 cents. She put two on my postcard.