Remember my two recent postcard finds both addressed to Garnet Eller? Well I just realized two other postcards I selected from the same antique store visit are related–one sent to Mr.…
I wanna glide down over Mulholland I wanna write her name in the sky Gonna free fall out into nothin’ Gonna leave this world for a while —Free Falling, Tom…
“An Adirondack Carry”While I bought this one for Wally’s message, the Smiths (perhaps Little Jimmy) evidently enjoyed the “Moonlight Scene” enough to tape it to the wall, adding a bonus layer…
As I mentioned in my Julian, CA post, I recently visited the Old Town area of Temecula, California. Like any respectable Old Town, it was thick with antique shops. I only had…
I’ve been needing a West Virginia postcard as part of my mission to have all fifty states represented in my collection, and I found one! Views along Cheat River, W.…
Just got back from a trip to Julian. The drive there from Escondido was absolutely gorgeous, as was the Cedar Creek Falls Saddleback Trail hike. Wildflowers all the way. Learned…
I have a number of new postcards to share, and out of all of them, this one seems the most appropriate for Mother’s Day, as my mother and her mother…
This charming funicular is known as both the Fenelon Place Elevator and the Fourth Street Elevator, as Fenelon Place is the street at the top, and Fourth Street is at…
I recently rediscovered the book Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape edited by Barry Lopez. It’s an encyclopedia of geological, ecological and folk terms contributed by authors known for their ties…
Well, here we are again. Another tragic earthquake, and I wonder if I should even be writing. But I think the silver lining of such events is it makes often…
