A Plethora of Postcards

      It's been too long since I've posted here.  I've been trying to get back at it for a while now, but it's amaz...

That camping trip I mentioned on yesterday's blog (Bear, Part I)?  We actually rode horses and led mules 20 miles into the mountains fr...

I have a bear phobia.  They featured prominently in my nightmares as a child so when our family packed into the Sierras, camping on the sho...

One of the founders of our company finally took a much needed vacation, and spent a week in Destin, Florida .  He tells me it's called t...

Regular readers know that my friends are a great source of postcards for me.  Recently, my friend, Marcia, went to New York City and brought...

One of my favorite Postcrossing postcards ever, from Cynthia in the Netherlands.  I love the picture and the message, both posted below for ...

This postcard from Krygyzstan  is a first for me - a postcard from one of the "-stan" countries - sent by my friend, Andrew.  He ...

A while back, I posted a series of cow postcards.  I was surprised at  how many I had.  (You can check them out here  (Swiss cows), here  (...

I seem to keep missing limited run exhibits at museums around San Francisco.  Here is an examples of one.  It was called "Pulp Fashion:...

My friend Jessica brought me this postcard from The Windmill Museum which I couldn't be sure was a real place.  Sure enough though, t...

In looking for information about the roadrunner in this postcard, I came across the " The Cornell Lab of Ornithology ".   It has g...

Lately it's been a "Paucity of Postcards" rather than a "Plethora of Postcards".  It's been a crazy summer with ...

Haven't posted any colleges for a while, and in this month of college graduations, perhaps I should. My niece just graduated from Loyo...

I may have mentioned my son is in college in Oregon, so we've driven to and from there multiple times over the last few years.  On one o...

Louisa S. Cooper was "Mrs. Witter" to me, and  a mainstay of our multi-family Labor Day beach weeks in Carpinteria , when I was a...

This painting (oil on canvas) by Jerzy Wołoszynowicz is entitled, "Sunset over Ostrow Tumski , the view from Grunwaldzki Bridge"....

Here is "Sacred Spaces", an installation by Antonius Roberts , the most renowned artist of the Bahamas.  In his own words, Sacred...

Here we have Gnafron, a classic Lyon puppet and character in the French puppet show, Guignol (also the name of the main character).  From th...

Yuki Moinuma is an illustrator in Japan, much of whose work is used on stationery type items.  I could find several fans of her work, but no...

In case you haven't noticed, I'm having fun with segues, shifting effortlessly (at least in my view) from "The Umbrellas...

It's been unusually wet this June in California.  In fact, by the time this is posted, we may have broken all recorded re...

We have to love Swiss cows - from them we get Swiss cheese and Swiss chocolates! This is another P ostcrossing postcard, from a Swiss mom...

Another cow postcard, this one from Leny, a fellow Postcrossing member.  From the back of the card, "I'm Leny...  I live in the s...

Should I be calling this the "cow series" instead of the "animal series"?  This is the third postcard featuring cows and...

It's a two- fer!  (Two for one, for the non-native English speaking readers.) Not only does this belong to the animal series, but it a...

Speaking of Beefeaters.  I have to say, though, that these look like milk cows, not beef cows.  Not that I'm an expert on cows, but  I...

I forgot about the wedding this weekend.  Should have saved all those last few postcards for the build up to the big day! So, in honor of ...

No, this isn't a picture clipped out of people magazine.  It's one of a huge stack of postcards my son brought back from Europe thi...

I know every word to the song Waltzing Matilda but I don't think I've ever heard (or at least paid attention to) the words of the A...

I was surprised to find I had two postcards of bats, one of Polish bats (or at least bats on a postcard sent from Poland) and one of fruit...

In Argentina, the Casa Rosada (the Rosy House) is the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina , and of the of...

When the surf comes up at Mavericks , the waves are among the largest cold water waves anywhere. This past week, one of the best big wave s...

I love playing Scrabble.  At any given time, I've got about four games going on Facebook with friends, one who lives in San Francisco, a...

Spring is always my favorite season.  It reminds me of poppies in bloom, asparagus, hard boiled eggs, my birthday, daylight savings time, a...

Big day!  My first Moomin postcard from Finland, through Postcrossing .  I've mentioned before that the Finns, given the size and popul...

If hundreds of ships no longer in use but still floating in the Bay is called a "mothball fleet", does that make a s...

Cheng Kung Three Fairies Terrace is in Taiwan.  From the back of the card:  It (sp.) located at the northern part of Cheng Kung Town in Tai...

This card is from a fellow "Postcard Friendship Friday" friend Sheila, of A Postcard A Day .  She lives in England, but has a cot...

It's rainy today in San Francisco, after a week of beautiful, warm-for-January weather.  Sometimes the little teases of Spring make wait...

A particularly beautiful view of Mount Rushmore , at Sunset, sent from Duke and Sandy during their second cross country odyss...