Category: Mail

This is from Switzerland.  Catherine sent it to me.  We have in common novel reading and she translates the front as “you smile and the world changes.”

I like these stamps, partially because we have an area outside of Portland called Helvetia.  I forget that there was a big group of Swiss here. 

I loved this card, because the illustration is so detailed, plus there is gold filigree all over it that makes it very pretty to look at.  This is from Katherine and she is an 18-year-old student in Taiwan.  She said her parents used to go to grocery stores like this when they were young but such stores have been replaced by convenience stores.

You have to look sideways (sorry) but that’s a beetle and some kind of berry.

This is called “May Wind” and is from Caroline.  Her three facts are:  “I’m happy today very much because my mother has birthday.  I gather sugar packets.  I have more than thousand. I’m 27 years old but I still think and feel that I’m 15 years old. But I think that this is my advantage rather than disadvantage.”

When I registered the postcard, I told her how my friends and I used to bring each other lighters when we went on trips, even before any of us smoked.  And she wrote back and said that her friend’s daughter married a millionaire in America and when the friend went to visit they collected sugar packets everywhere.  

Postcrossing is so awesome.

This is from A-Chien who lives in Kaohsiung and is 37 years old.  A-Chein especially likes this tower.

I’m going to start taking pictures of the super awesome stamps that come with some of the postcards.  This had four different stamps, all different.  So cool.

This is from Lori, who works at the Chandelier Tree and is a non-drinking bartender.  When I registered the card, I wrote her that I was once a vegetarian meat seller.

This is a picture of the Herkules Monument which is a town landmark.

Here’s one from Hawaii, picked out by my co-worker’s daughter especially for me.  She knows my Channing Tatum/hunky men preference.

This is from Ines, who included a quote from the Little Prince. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

But the postcard itself is from California, where Marie visited for her 35th birthday.

This came with news of the beginning of the sender’s re-watch of the Veronica Mars TV series.

Also some instructions.

I’d like to say that I was the the one to assemble, but it was Matt.  I was having one of those vacation days when there wasn’t enough time to get things done, and I just couldn’t make this work.  So Matt happily assembled.  It’s now a pretty bird on our pot rack.

Here’s a pretty one from China.  One of the things I list in my Postcrossing profile is that I collect quotes.  Here’s what this postcrosser said in response:

I giggled, I must admit.  I’ll have to revise that word to “quotations”

This is from Maya, who sends this lovely view of her hometown.  She lives with her dog and six cats.

This is a beautiful place in Beijing that used to belong to the Royal Family.

Thank goodness!

Although message written on the back of the postcard laments that it keeps snowing in Virginia.  I took a picture of the obverse, because this postcard got rather damp in its travels, washing out the ink.  Perhaps it was snowed on?  Also, I was intrigued by the stamp cancellation.  Who knew ball point pen and odd circles had become a thing with the USPS?

Here we have the classic Minnesota tourist postcard, the kind of postcard that many Postcrossers disdain, but I enjoy.

Here are two fun views of Minneapolis and St. Paul, with a stamp peeking over the top.

And an art show postcard of Anne Labovitz’s work.

As you can tell, someone I know went to Minnesota.

Is this not lovely?  It was a cold and rainy (as well as grumpy) day when I received it and it immediately cheered me up.

Inside, along with the temperature and a picture of the weather, it says:

Greetings from Finland!

I liked to paint card to you with acrylic colours. Yesterday we were on ice fishing. I fick four fishes and then I ate them. Outside I have snow heart and (drawing) of snowballs and candle is inside it. I hope all the best to you.

Oh Postcrossing!  So wonderful!  I checked this postcrosser’s profile to see if she painted everyone a card.  She does not.  I’m not sure why I was the lucky one, but I’m happy she picked me to receive such a beautiful card.