Tuula in Tampere, Finland sends this beautiful reproduction of a vintage Estonian card, showing the Tarvastu Bridge, near the city of Viljandi. I suspect that the border around the picture was embossed on the original, but this modern reproduction is not. This scene is very reminiscent of scenes near my own home; there are a [...]
“Wind surfing on the Great Lakes is an ever increasingly popular sport enjoyed by young and old.” I don’t imagine that there’s too many days left this year for this activity, at least not on the Great Lakes; that water gets cold. This 1970s-era Plastichrome postcard arrived in my mailbox a few days ago; it’s [...]
“While training, elephants enjoy their leisure time on a small river.” That description sort of implies that it is the elephants who are in charge and not the men. In fact, it looks as though the human leader is getting a reminder of that. This postcard was sent to me by the lovely Linkenel, who [...]
Vicky sent me this amazing postcard from Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the postcard is completely in Chinese and Vicky’s message (at right), while adorable, did nothing to elucidate me regarding this view. This building almost seems to be built into the rock. Am I looking at it right? What could this building be? It looks like [...]
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