Tag: postcrossing

Hans writes from Utrecht that “I love our Royal House.”  He also told me that they got a new king and queen this year, which I knew because of an earlier postcard from the Netherlands and because I read it in the paper.  I would be excited about a new king (or queen) too!

Preston writes from Canyon, which is apparently a small city in the Texas Panhandle.  He tells me that Canyon is where West Texas A&M University is.   I’m also interested in Preston’s card because he sent it with a 33-cent stamp.  It occurs to me that it has been a few years since 33-cents paid for a first-class letter.  I remember the stamps he sent, though.  It was the series of early US flags.

It’s been a dry month for Postcrossing postcards.  I’m glad these two came in the mail.

Sent by one half of the delightful Pike Schemes, who enjoyed a trip to North Carolina for Thanksgiving.

This is from Sofia who has the hobbies of photography, painting and listening to rock music.  She reports that “I also listen to such world-famous groups as Scropions, the Beatles, AC/DC, Metallica and others.”

Also, this painting is a Ukrainian National Pattern.  Man, we don’t have any national patterns here in the US!

It arrived bearing some great stamps.
 

Fill in the blank!  This is from Sara.  She reports improvement, which is always good!

This is from Arlette in Germany and she drew it for me.  It is made using a technique called “Zentangle.”  Each of the patterns has a name and she picked out four that spell my name:  PAradox, TRIpoli, CIceron, Aura-leah.  I love it!  Arlette reports the following facts about her:  drawing relaxes her, she loves hot chocolate and sometimes books make her cry.

I was interested in Zentangle and did a bit of research and discovered that not only did the library have books on the subject, there are three upcoming classes.  How about that for kismet?

This is from Luyana and she is studying in Minsk. She told me how beautiful Belarus is.  This isn’t even my first postcard from Minsk.  People from Belarus love Postcrossing.

My Aunts are in Hawaii for their annual trip and Aunt Pat reports that “we have a nice cottage and a lovely view of the ocean showing a hammock tied to two palm trees.”

This is from Elena in the city of Novosibirsk.  She sent me this quote “Let it be as it will be, because somehow, be done.  Indeed, there was never so that there was no way.”

She also writes “I am a student at the Institute of the lawyer.  Engaged in playing tennis and I love to create beautiful things with his hands.”

I love Postcrossing.

This is my first odd-shaped postcard.  Amy sent the card and included this quote:  “Doing what you like is Freedom, like what you do is Happiness.”

A little birthday greeting from my college adviser.  I knew her as a professor in Missouri.  Then she moved to Massachusetts, then North Carolina and now she’s back home in Texas, state of her birth.  

This is from Tanja in Austria.  She has the most beautiful handwriting I’ve seen on a postcard and reports that her favorite book is The Hearing Trumpet by Lenora Carrington.

Here is a beautiful postcard from Germany, sent on the day after my birthday, which Hans was kind to note.  Hans worked on a ship and has visited many parts of the US.

I was curious to see how many postcards I have received from Germany because it seems like a lot, so I checked my stats.  Yep.  A lot of postcards from Germany. Double the next two highest numbers.

(This chart is from the future, generated on 11/15)

• Postcards by country

• 		Country	Received▲	Avg travel (Received)
  1		Australia	1	40 days
  2		Austria	1	23 days
  3		Brazil	1	38 days
  4		Bulgaria	1	11 days
  5		Finland	1	18 days
  6		Hong Kong	1	21 days
  7		Japan	1	10 days
  8		Latvia	1	7 days
  9		Poland	1	10 days
  10		Portugal	1	12 days
  11		Romania	1	8 days
  12		Singapore	1	25 days
  13		Spain	1	7 days
  14		Sweden	1	11 days
  15		Ukraine	1	17 days
  16		Czech Republic	2	8 days
  17		Belarus	3	30 days
  18		Taiwan	3	21 days
  19		Netherlands	4	9 days
  20		Russia	5	28 days
  21		U.S.A.	5	6 days
  22		Germany	10	10 days