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Sometimes it is enough just to get a bird's eye view of the water other times, you want to be right in it or maybe you'd like to liv...

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 the first full moon of 2026, and the first supermoon

a new year is dawning   time to get up and start fresh for 2026 we have a bright sunny day winter needs the sun to shine (and the snow to be...

 walking away from 2025...

  After last week's discovery of a double land-locked country with Uzbekistan,  I looked up my cards for Liechtenstein, the only other l...

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  We may not get this much snow, but there is ice pellets and freezing rain expected on this Boxing Day

  I don't think I have ever seen an image of Joseph holding the baby Jesus. They look like such a happy family here, and the baby looks ...

In 1992, Canada issued a series of Christmas stamps featuring "personages" from various regions, specifically Estonia, Italy and G...

Amir Temur (1320-1405, or thereabouts), perhaps more commonly known as Tamerlane, was a particularly brutal military leader from Uzbekistan,...

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  It is raining here.  Here a couple of red breasted birds from Lithuania.  Artist: Raimonda Rauluseviciene

are those little oranges on Paddington's tree?  from Russia

  received from Germany I am quite taken with this little robin.  In the lead up to tomorrow's theme of Christmas ornaments, I have put ...

Royal Street was spared the worst of the floods from Katrina, in 2005, having been built on naturally higher ground near the curve of the Mi...

  original Warren Truss High Bridge demolished around 1987.  built in 1889 and designed for wagons.  this card is from around 1910

Children's toys were the theme for 1979 Christmas stamps.  It was the Year of the Child that year, and antique toys were photographed by...

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The Mayo Clinic has been around in one form or another since 1864.  The hospital grew out of a series of devastating tornadoes in 1893.  At ...

The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Centre has been predominantly a Norway spruce, with a couple of Balsam firs or White spruces, since the fi...

Floral Clock, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Musik - und Bergstadt Sonderhausen  In the centre is the castle where the Musik school can be found received from a music teacher in Germany

  I'm not usually a fan of 'clear-cut' looking roads, but there is something about arriving in Owen Sound on Hwy 21 and seeing t...

 a parade of santas on skiis (1996) in a sleigh, and in a car, and on a train (2004) 2004 was the 100th Toronto Santa Claus Parade

my 4,000th card received from China. the sender has been considering getting a stray cat, but is concerned about how upset they'd feel i...

 1923 Yesterday, there were a few rocking horses on the posts for children with toys.  Here are two rocking horses for fun loving adults.

 naughty? or nice?

In spring, there is Hanami, "cherry blossom viewing"  In autumn, there is Momiji-gari, "maple viewing" this woman has fo...

Samara, in this case, is a city in Russia that used to be known as Kuybyshev, at the confluence of the Volga and Samara rivers.  I can't...

  There are only around 400 inhabitants on this island, down from around 3,000 before 1945. edit:  I have now learned this is only one of 2,...