Flying Fish

 Flying Fish

 

My mom ( Of Blessed Memory)  loved fish both as decor and to eat so whenever I see fish I think of her.

Save a little post office in VT

You can save a sweet little post office and a job by sending a postcard.

For more information:
Save A Post Office



Check out the free range chickens too :)

Though it is not the smallest P.O. in the USA - that distinction is 
The P.O. in Ochopee Florida- More info here Ochopee Post Office

mail from me

These are 3 note cards I bought because I knew someone would love them- Here's the deal I will send one to anyone who wants one- Just send your address to my e-mail blumacheese @ yahoo.com Please put "Mail from me" in the subject line. Or you can post your e-mail ( or u2u me if you are a postcrosser- I am Lori there)  You can have them sent unused to be used by you or with my writing on them.

Malaysia Mail

Ni-San sent  vintage stamps, Cat card with Kuala Lumpur stamp week postmarks, A llama card from Peru written to someone in Germany - She always makes me smile with her envelopes -http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/8/30/nation/11934806&sec=nation

 From Nurul - 2 stamps from the Malaysian Unity Serieshttp://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/8/30/nation/11934806&sec=nation    and from Aileen   Traditional livelihood stamp featuring a fortune teller and an Elephant stamp.  Below is her artwork - a sweet snow person !

Malaysia

Simple things

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  ~Doug Larson

Camera love

I have always loved film photography.  This is my favorite book about the art, written by Jan Phillips a former nun http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260212.God_Is_at_Eye_Level

“For those of us bent on self-discovery and the revelation of our own inward journeys, I can think of few better tools than a camera and film.  For in that process of looking out to reveal our inner selves, we are on the edge of both, on that thin curved line between yin and yang, blending the known with the greater unknown.”  Jan Phillips

Russian leaves and old cards :)

   Alina from Chelyabinsk Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk sent me a wonderful envelope filled with leaves from her area and vintage cards last November-she said the leaves were oak, rhamnus, frangula, birch.  I also loved besides the postcards, the little vintage memo paper.