See it on a Postcard

This map is pre 1990s - the province abbreviation changed from P.Q (Province de Quebec) to  the 2 letter Qc in 1991.

This set came out last year (Eva has already introduced us to Christi Belcourt for 'B'). Grandmother Josephine Mandamin was a water ...

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 The Ten-Thousand Mile Long Wall* Other names used in Chinese medieval records are 'ramparts', 'frontiers', 'barriers...

  my first Loupaper card

  The Palatinate Forest is one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Germany.  It is a low mountain region in the southwest with it'...

  With four official languages in Switzerland, trying to fit Schweiz, Suisse, Svizerra, and the Romansch Svizra would take up most of the ro...

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Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park (est 2002)   "The Trossachs were Scotlands first National Park.  A place where the lowlands and...

  Gabon, on the west coast of Africa on the equator stamp shows a colourful, but toxic, "sunset moth"  their bright colours are a ...

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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - even his name sounds musical - (1756-1791)    Ava Gabor (1919-1995) here portraying Lisa Douglas with Arnold the ...

  The Rana pretiosa - Oregon spotted frog - is the most endangered frog in Canada. There's only a couple hundred of them found in the lo...

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I love this one of the little polar bear reading, illustrated by Hans de Beer Ot en Sien,  illustrated by Cornelis Jetses hopelessly old fas...

 

  These don't look so 'little' to me, but the translation is "little egret" which weighs about 310 g, or almost 11 oz....

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  WATERLILIES AND PERSIMMONS

Not really a castle, Schloss Drachenburg was built between 1882-84 (two years!) as a private villa.  It took almost two decades for the rest...

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 I have never seen a hedgehog in the wild, but I think they are adorable creatures I have, however, seen countless raccoons in the wild.  I...

 where I live, there are many waterfalls - these are perhaps the most picturesque but, there has been so little rain lately, that at least t...

 20 centimes coin from Switzerland showing the head of Liberty (designed in 1879)   2 cent stamp from Netherlands  (1946)

  above by a local artist, Sylvia Simpson below by a famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh 

Not to be confused with 'Honduras', British Honduras was a Crown Colony on the southern edge of the Yucatan Peninsula.  Although in ...

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these animals fit nicely into the compact island of Taiwan,    but, it is a special joy to receive a shaped map card although, Bulgaria has ...

  The Arctic islands are an archipelago of over 36,000 islands.  I will admit, I had no idea there were so many!  Only 11 are inhabited.

it is still hot, though not as humid as last week.  getting this card yesterday of a kitty striding through the snow was very welcome CATURD...

For all of my life, I have always lived near water - in many cases within walking distance of a lake, a creek, canal, river, or a pond.  I c...