See it on a Postcard

Diwali starts on November 8 this year. I've received a couple of cards from India recently and was thrilled to get this 2008 Diwali stam...

  CATURDAY day 1717 of war in Ukraine  day 7 of NaBloPoMo

There is so much I like about this postcard.  I don't know much about it, but some sleuthing determined that it is likely from 1904.  It...

The Glassculpture and Garden in Munster Germany would naturally be gleaming under sun and blue skies It looks like it might be a nice blue s...

as seen through the eyes and paintbrush of Tom Thomson Autumn Birches, painted in Algonquin Park 1916 Tom Thomson is commonly associated wit...

 bird of the week "...then this ebony bird beguiling my sad face into smiling" stamp printed 2016 for the Birds of Canada series. ...

Here it is November and in southern Ontario the colours have not peaked yet.  They are around 60% where I live.  Soon enough we may get a vi...

  Most images of Audrey Hepburn show off her elongated neckline in an elegant black dress.  I'm not sure why this Yousuf Karsh portrait ...

a proud guardian  CATURDAY

In Russian folklore, the Alkonost is a celestial bird with the head of a maiden.  They have the ability to mesmerize humans with their ench...

bird of the week  Common Loon continuing with the loons in yesterday's full moon post

it is deer hunting season once the leaves start to fall

   time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so   ~ Douglas Adams It is that time of year where many clocks "fall back".  apparently e...

This white lighthouse with a black belted middle is a perfect backdrop for the black cows with a white belted middle.  The cows are Lakenvel...

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  New Jersey is the fifth smallest state in the US, at 7, 354 sq mi (19,050  km² )  but is the 11th most populous with over 9.6 million pe...

bird of the week  around the size of a sparrow, this is the world's smallest raptor

 I have so many of these New Year stamps from China, but I haven't seen one in awhile an Italian flying envelope and a (battered stamp) ...

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The first Winnie-the-Pooh book was published on this date 100 years ago. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard

  bird of the week

pancakes (blini) with caviar I did not know that avocados grew in Madeira,  (ours all come from Mexico) nor that watermelon has been in Japa...

 this little one has the most watery blue eyes! CATURDAY

  some indigenous sculptures for Thursday Postcard Hunt

 BIRD OF THE WEEK a taxidermy kiwi

 a magpie with her young in a nest from Australia a cartoonish (but no less attractive) mandarin duck from Japan