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This Estonian Town Hall Square has been a marketplace since the middle ages.  It looks like it might just be setting up, or closing down, in...

in celebration of the Lunar New Year, a trio of running horses sculpted by Joe Fafard Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) or Gong Hei Fat Choi (Canton...

I was looking through my fishes for a carp and came across this 'csuka', which translates to pike in English.  Below, is a 'pont...

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a city with mountains The taller spire, on the far right, is the Munster, and the shorter one in the middle with the green top is the Church...

Possibly, in a totally unscientific poll, this is the most popular building to appear on postcards from Toronto A 98 room mansion, considere...

Here is a bird's eye view of Queen's Park with the Ontario Legislative Assembly building, which is always known also as Queen's ...

Home to the National Assembly of Quebec in Quebec City. A second empire style building built between 1877 and 1886. This may be a favourite ...

  Seeing a bullfinch signifies good luck, new beginnings, love and divine messages Seeing a male and female bullfinch side by side is indeed...

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Every city should have an official mascot.  Singapore has this mythical creature sculpted by Ling Nam Seng in 1972.  It's fish-like body...

It hurts my brain a little to be going back and forth across the country like this, not to mention all the differing names on the cards... N...

I didn't think I had a card of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, known as the Confederation Building, but here we are.  T...

February (and January) is often the snowiest months of the year ... and that has proved true here this past week!  bonus parliament postcard...

I have been saving these stamps for the next year of the ram - so 2027 - even though they aren't technically lunar new year stamps. They...

  I almost missed the cat for all the tiles, and she blends in so well received from Portugal CATURDAY

The New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Building stands out for the mansard roofs. The Second Empire style building in Fredricton was built i...

We have been getting some showings of the aurora this past year, and I have missed pretty much all of them.  This view is from Norway, and I...

Another Beaux-arts building, this one in Regina, Saskatchewan.  It has the distinction of being the largest of the legislative buildings (an...

Not all the legislative buildings have legislative building in their name.  British Columbia's is one of the few that are Parliament B...

Inspired by Lisa's postcards last week of state capitol buildings, I spent the weekend searching for my collection of our provincial le...

 rock paintings from Zimbabwe the last of this series of stamps A to Z I have so thoroughly enjoyed all that was offered, I thought we'd...

  Received from Russia with an interesting story.  The sender picked this up while on vacation in Kazan City where the Kazan cat has been th...

Abbell Synagogue, Hadassah University Medical Centre "These windows were Chagall’s window of opportunity to give back to his people — ...

  Redwoods, or Sequoias, are the tallest trees in the world and can live for thousands of years.  This particular view makes me dizzy just l...

I spent so much time looking for Q and X, that I forgot how challenging Y might be... though Germany has a Y, there isn't a Y in  this D...

  received from U.S.   photographer Geraint Smith, Taos NM CATURDAY

I was going to use this for 'sunshine', but the snowy scene was too perfect he is cutting a good figure in the snow

  This stamp shows a Xhosa woman and traditional beadwork.  It could also be considered x-rated - at least in Canada and USA?!

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