States Project | The Show-Me State

I guess you remember Bryon's States Project Well, the missing postcard, Missouri, just landed. Sent on 15 October 2024, but only got a postmark on 10 May 2025, and it arrived on 3 June 2025. That makes it a completely successful project: 50/50!

States Project Update

One year ago, Bryon started a project with the Alabama postcard.

From May to December 2024, he accomplished this big postal project: sending me a postcard from the capital city on every USA state, with matching stamps: Greetings from America (2002), the state birds (1982) and the state flags (1976).  See here all the postcards.

The list of the  States Project postcards sent in order of arrival (although they were sent in alphabetical order):

1. ARKANSAS
2. CALIFORNIA
3. COLORADO
4. DELAWARE
5. CONNECTICUT
6. ARIZONA
7. ALASKA
8. HAWAII
9. GEORGIA
10. IDAHO
11. ALABAMA
12. FLORIDA
13. INDIANA
14. ILLINOIS,
15. IOWA
16. KENTUCKY,
17. KANSAS
18. LOUISIANA
19. MAINE
20. MARYLAND
21. MICHIGAN
22. MINNESOTA
23. MISSISSIPPI
24. NEBRASKA
25. NEVADA
26. NEW HAMPSHIRE
27. NEW JERSEY
28. NEW MEXICO
29. NEW YORK
30. OHIO
31. OREGON
32. MONTANA
33. SOUTH DAKOTA
34. TEXAS
35. UTAH
36. NORTH CAROLINA
37. NORTH DAKOTA
38. OKHLAHOMA
39. PENNSYLVANIA
40. RHODE ISLAND
41. TENNESSEE
42. WISCONSIN
43. WYOMING
44. VERMONT
45. WASHINGTON
46. VIRGINIA
47. WEST VIRGINIA
48. MASSACHUSETTS
49. SOUTH CAROLINA -- No project is perfect. Out of 50, 49 postcards landed. MISSOURI is still missing!
50. MISSOURI

States Project | The Palmetto State

The South Carolina postcard, full of postmarks, is the last but one postcard from Bryon's States Project. How cool is that?

Although we have palmettos here (in our case, Chamaerops humilis), I did not know the word, and even less that a US state bears this nickname. The palmetto is also on the flag.

States Project | The Bay State

This postcard belonging to the States Project has made a long journey and even a time travel: it was written on 23 September 2024, only got a postmark on 6 February 2023 (!?). It reached me on 24 March 2025.

I really wanted to get the postcard from the state where the oldest lighthouse in USA was built!

States Project | The Mountain State

The postcards of the States Project usually do not arrive alone, and this one came along with its Virginia sister. 

It surprised me to see again the cardinal as the state bird. According to the Wikipedia: "Some state birds are shared between multiple states. Of the 50 states, a total of 32 do not have a unique state bird." The northern cardinal is the bird of seven states (See this map).

States Project | Old Dominion State

I think I would like it more if the nickname of Virginia on the postcard had been Mother of Presidents. Also clearer postmarks and undamaged stamps would have been better welcomed. But the postal machines (or the mail monsters) have no mercy on the poor flag stamps of the States Project!

States Project | The Evergreen State

If I had to choose only one of all the interesting facts about the state of Washington, I would hesitate between Walla Walla wine, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and the Maltby Café Cinnamon rolls. I had not heard about any of these things before getting this States Project postcard!

States Project | The Green Mountain State

 

This is the Vermont postcard belonging to Bryon's States Project: the state with the highest ratio of cows to people (but it is not America's Dairyland!). It seems they make very good soft serve (creemee), ice cream and... goat cheese?!?

By the way, I think they used exactly the same cow in both postcards!

States Project | The Equality State

At first sight, I thought that the mail monsters had attacked this new instalment of Bryon's States Project... And after a closer look, I realised it is a geyser!

States Project | America's Dairyland

Although it is not the state with the highest rate of cows to people (spoiler: it is Vermont, according to these postcards), Wisconsin is nicknamed America's Dairyland. To the point that people from Wisconsin, and especially the Green Bay Packers fans, are called Cheeseheads. 

I had to look up almost everything that appears on this postcard. Clearly, I did not know nothing about this state!

You can see here all the States Project postcards sent by Bryon and so far uploaded.

States Project | The Volunteer State

This is the first of the States Project postcards sent by Bryon that bears a 2025 postmark: 2 January 2025, and it arrived on 23 January 2025 (along with other 7 delayed postcards!).

I would always associate Tennessee with music, but other facts caught my attention, like Dollywood, S'mores (without the mess?), the nickname The Volunteer State...