3 @Cruzin - thank you for the beautiful poststone aquarius postcard! i love your take on starting the new year on the “right foot”although i have super bad balance so i dont know how well i would be at this haha
13 @k8thegr8 - pusheen on a cargo bike - thank you so much! we love a multimodal queen i feel like oregon is the always the american model we aspire to be haha in boston, we are getting there but not quite where we need to be with protected bike lines. hopefully, one day!
28 @TwoDoggies - thank you so much for the washington dc max&oscar! i am so glad they included the cherry blossoms in this; one of favourite things about dc i hope you have a wonderful time on your cruise!
Nope, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t photoshopped. Note the clothes are just fastened to the fronts of the statues. The figures aren’t actually wearing them. This group of statues has often been dressed up by locals.
#28@TwoDoggies I totally forgot about putting in a challenge for January!! I’m going to do Feb. after I finish this so while I am remembering! Hope you and your brother enoy the cruise!
#30@RockyRoadTrip Wow! A Christian Lacroix Mexico card! I have a set of Lacroix postcards - but never seen anything like this one! Love the metallic and of course the skulls! Also very collage like!
#6@mikeyz1 thanks for the Edward Gorey card with “The Boggerslosh”. Strange. I need to improve my sleep quality as well. As I’ve been retired, my sleeping habits have become worse. Up til 2-3 a.m. reading, sleeping in until 11. Not great for getting things done.
#26@sarahaeyo thank you for the opposite turtles (top and bottom). a beautiful box turtle crawled into my backyard one day. I have no idea how he got there through the fence. I relocated him to a nearby creek. I hope it was the right thing to do and I didn’t inadvertently separate him from his family.
#29@melvnoble thank you for the Love stamp card. I went to a meetup at the P.C. museum last World Postcard Day. I liked the venue. I didn’t like the meetup. It was too crowded.
#17@potatertot - a rainbow-hued hot air balloon in an unlabeled location. I think it may be part of the Prosser, Washington hot air balloon festival. I’ve seen very similar photos from that location. Thank you. I’ve never gone ballooning in the US, but have been lucky enough to go twice on other trips - over the Nile River near Luxor, Egypt in 2006, and over the Cappadocia region in Turkey in 2014. Awesome! The first time we had a bumpy landing in a farmer’s field. The second time we landed neatly on the flatbed truck that was take the balloon back to its home.
I have received cards from #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, and 30. @cawindt Love the card from Jamestown…cool pic! @CrimsonKing Love the portrait by Thomas Gainsborough…just saw another of his in Hong Kong, @Cruzin The Golden Girls …ruthless!!! @jenhart Pretty good student work I’d say! @carolreader A photo of Buffalo Bill…so cool! @mikeyz1 One of my favorite art pieces…The vegetable construction portrait from the Louvre…I’ve seen it! And there are others there too,…very difficult to recreate I think. @alcott1 A reminder to support your local book store…and I do! Bakeries and bookstores…cannot pass them by! @Shesa-Renegade Very cool pic by a musician turned artist…creativity abounds. @WrenAtTheBeach Wow…a poem about a woman and a bear…magical. @Yarn-Lady a cabin in Central oregan…I’m guessing there’s snow there now…looks like you all have been having a hard winter. @k8thegr8 Thank you for the beautiful art card…so serene. @Hazygirl Omg a cat butt painting…made me howl…so good. @4kids2pay4 Sent a female nude art card. Thank you, @jacieslar Wow…such a perfect pot by Mexican potters…It’s jaw dropping. @potatertot Love the cranium…if only it was true right? Damn science… @LaurenceB a beautiful portrait of a young lady…it’s inspirational what these artist do… @ellistrations Love the stamp and bird combo…very nice. @hootnoodle Yeah…Australia! I also toured the building…it’s almost glowing wouldn’t you say? @YellowButterfly76 Love the Unterach painting. Very colorful @uconn Very funny…Saturday Evening post cover …of tattoo changes…love this card! Thanks James @roxy Yes…all my family are in Canada…so I get over there all the time…wedding this June for instance…love the B & W from Paris. @jocrafts Thank you for the reminder to Love what you love… @sarahaeyo Appreciate the Hawaii card…thanks @TwoDoggies Sent a portrait of Karl Marx…I’ve read the Communist Manifesto and I always love it when people send book recommendations and I read it and question our friendship…lol…you too huh? @melvnoble Love the old time mail box photo from DC…ahhh…the good old days. @RockyRoadTrip YES! Walt Whitman portrait…and my favorite poem is the Wound Dresser…it’s about his time as a nurse…I relate!
#23@suatelier sent Hong Kong! Wow that must have been some trip. T shirt weather - oh how I can’t wait for it to return! #29@melvnoble sent Washington DC I haven’t been there since I was young, it’s so close to NY but I never think to go.
i love your take on starting the new year on the “right foot”
although i have super bad balance so i dont know how well i would be at this haha
i feel like oregon is the always the american model we aspire to be haha 
in boston, we are getting there but not quite where we need to be with protected bike lines. hopefully, one day!
so many beautiful rooftops in the view! would love to visit one day 
i hope you have a wonderful time on your cruise!
I’m hoping 2024 has a positive outcome…
