See it on a Postcard

Lammastide, the halfway point between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox The festival marks the wheat harvest and is the firs...

Pola Negri, a Polish silent film star who was the first European actress invited to Hollywood.  She was as well known for her love affa...

winding down Montreal

I was introduced to this beer while living in Amsterdam and for some reason I saved a few (empty) bottles and  brought them back as souve...

     Francis I (salamander)                          Louis XII (porcupine)           Claude de France (goose)              Anne de Bret...

The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) is on the left, while Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii)  is peeking out on the right. B...

a street cat from Russia CATURDAY

The Wawel Castle in Krakow is honoured to be the first designated Unesco World Heritage Site. The oldest parts date back to 970AD and t...

lipstick matching  her car? of course it will!

Sequoia National Park was established in 1890. Sequoias can live for 3,000 years.

the river in this case is named Moira Captain John Meyers was a Loyalist spy during the American Revolution. After the war he came ...

home of Cow's Ice Cream

The Norwegian post horn design has been in continuous use since it was first used in 1872 (148 years) The next longest running series i...

I can only hear Antonio Banderas' voice for Puss (even if this one is a different breed) CATURDAY

I picked up this card because of the architecture but it's special now because I've been following the fun museum twitter account ...

The balancing act. It must take great skill and years of practice to maneuver these large nets by hand!

I have been using my lockdown time at home to sort through my postcards... Kaj Stenvall's ducks don't seem to be as popular ...

Bastille Day

So happy to be outside!

Cypress trees in Flat Lake at sunset from a photograph by Louisiana wildlife photographer, C.C. Lockwood.  Flat Lake is part of the one m...

cat days from Finland

a different route 66 where in Rovaniemi is may get up to a high of 13°C today. a far cry from our unbearable 33°C in Toronto

Hong Kong street showing tram tracks but no trams. Today, I imagine this street is very busy though I wonder if any of these buildings st...

I like to support the local farmers as much as I can and the farmer's markets are the best place to do that. If you find yourself i...

If I could be anywhere in the world right now?   New Zealand comes to mind, for so many reasons. Gardens are such restorative places, ...

A sun cured tobacco making it more aromatic than smoke cured. (not that I would know — I've never smoked) Is that not one large carto...

Life on St Kilda, a remote archipelago in the Outer Hebrides - 110 miles off the coast of Scotland and 40 miles from the next nearest is...

wrapped in the flag

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival           the award is the Crystal Globe which has been given out since 1948 July 3 to July 1...

Officially known as Church of St Nicholas the Miracle Worker, the Russian Church was built on the site of a mosque which was d...

A quieter than usual Canada Day The bears won't have to hide from the fireworks this year.

Hotel Viru, Tallin Built in 1972 and the first high rise building in Estonia. From this angle, those two towers look awfully close toge...

The symbol of Liverpool is the mythical Liver Bird. Here is one of the two that stand watch atop the Liver Building. They are named Berti...

The Eisteddfod is held every August as a celebration of culture and language in Wales.  Eight days of competitions in music and poetry....

GLASGOW Thinking of (my other city) Glasgow during this tense and sad time

circa 1964 The Inn on the Park, a long ago luxury hotel in Toronto built in the early 1960s sadly demolished and now a luxury car dealer...

A medieval castle with a museum and inn. The oldest parts built in the late 13th C with a rebuild and extension in the 15th C and an ...

Lya de Putti, a Hungarian silent screen actress (1897-1931)

It looks like these "two old ladies' have had their fill of each other. We have finally moved on to stage 2 of re-opening so the...

This topic proved harder for me than I thought it might... But, eventually, I settled on Canadian politician Tommy Douglas (1904-1986) wh...