Summer Mail - XI

 

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

Summer Mail - IX

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Delta de l'Ebre

The Ebre Delta is one of the largest wetland areas in the western Mediterranean region. It is located in the southwest of the Province of Tarragona, in Catalonia in Spain. 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | My Happy Place Is Next to a Lighthouse!

Mevagissey
CORNWALL

1. List-Ost - 2. List-West - 3. Quermarkenfeuer Rotes Klift - 
4. Kampen - 5. Hörnum
GERMANY

Texel
NETHERLANDS

Aveiro
PORTUGAL

Barsagin Cape, Vladivostok
RUSSIA

Passing Lismore Lighthouse enroute for the island of Mull
SCOTLAND

The Cuckold's Light, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
USA

Postcards sent by Ania (UK), Birgit (Germany), Heleen (Netherlands), Pedro (Portugal), Vika (Russia) and Amber (USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

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 | 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!