magpies

artist:Tanya Hazova

CATURDAY

pets

 I'm not sure if this ermine could be considered a pet...

 

but this cat seems right at home in one of the stranger postcards I've received.  It makes me laugh! 

and these two seem to be comfortable with each other
 

 

I apologize for the lateness... the original post seems to have disappeared, so I had to redo it. 

tandem

 

I have not received much mail lately ... then today eight cards arrived - each one from Germany!

guides

 well behaved

I don't know my dog breeds, but I think this is some kind of retriever?  maybe golden? or a lab?

not so well behaved

from 1952, the ubiquitous Canada Goose

tough cat

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on the farm

 

a Dutch cow with earrings 

a helpful cat

stepping out of the barn                             in winter

and in summer

time

 

In November, I posted another postcard of this Gastown Steam Clock for when the time fell back. Yesterday, the time sprang forward, and for most of British Columbians it will be the last time.  They will stay on daylight saving time forever.  This fills me with hope for the rest of us.

though there has been some pushback, with claims that staying on Standard Time would be a better choice, and now, I'm tending to agree with that.

flora and fauna fun

 

from the Czech Republic

flora 

 
 

 

and fauna

Certain that there must be a story behind this wine guzzling goose, I discovered it is a stamp for St Martin's Day which has a Czech tradition of eating a roast goose with a young vintage of a "svatomartinski vino" - the first wines of a new vintage of fresh, fruity wines that are meant to be drunk within a few months.

street cat

CATURDAY

in the wild

 I hadn't realized just how many of these 'Fauna of Belarus' cards I had. These are some I haven't already posted

not from Belarus, but this poor guy is having a bad feather day and I couldn't resist

apollo moon

There will be a total lunar eclipse today at noon CET ... which will be completely invisible to everyone in Europe.  

this full moon is otherwise known as a blood moon

(and, yes, I did get up to watch it) 

time

I was reading that some U.S. schools are removing analogue clocks because the kids nowadays can't read the time on them.

So, sure, instead of teaching them, some believe they should simply ignore it all in favour of digital clocks.

My thoughts are that we should have more clocks. Clock towers in every town. 

Halifax

      Skegness

       Toronto

Daytona Beach, which conveniently has twelve letters, just to confuse the analogue time learners even more

elephants

an elephant wishing he'd been born a giraffe 

 

 

 

 

and another wishing he'd been born anything else to get out of the circus