repeats?

I have the feeling that I've received all of these stamps before but will post them anyway. Simply can't resist foxes, cyclamens, canoes, or the aurora borealis.

decin

Cards from Central Europe are always welcome. This one, of Decin, Czechia, is from a Czech postcrosser.

kazlanak tomb

A Bulgarian postcrosser sent this wonderful card showing a detail of the paintings in the Kazlanak Tomb, a repository of Thracian art which is now a UN World Heritage Site. She also sent the stamps, noting that they too show Thracian art. The way the couple in the fresco have their wrists interlocked is somehow quite timeless and touching.

paper streets in pittsburgh

Hong Kong-born artist Bovey Lee, who now lives in Pittsburgh, is having a solo show called Paper Streets at 709 Penn Gallery, on Penn Avenue, in the heart of her adopted city's Cultural District. The show opened yesterday and runs until May 22. It features spectacular paper cut installations created by Lee in tribute to some of Pittsburgh's more iconic street scenes. http://boveylee.com

retro card on a spring day

PostMuse sent a Cavallini retro card, with a wistful comment about trying to make something of the same herself. It's all about practice--or so I like to tell myself.

finnish easter

A Finnish postcrosser sent whimsical Easter greetings. Sweet!

station inn

Another photograph turned into a postcard. This one is of the sign at the Station Inn, a train-spotting paradise in Cresson, Pennsylvania.

head of a man with a helmet

I mailed this card to a friend in Tono yesterday but should have taken notes. All I remember is that it is a 17th-century work touched up by Rubens and in the Louvre.

it's spring, yes?

A good way to spend a spring day even in Ben Franklin's time. I sent this card weeks ago to PostMuse but don't think I ever posted it. I'll be spending much of this fine day at the ballpark in Reading.

back street temple

The drama student/postcrosser who sent the card from Almada (below) asked me to send a photograph from Japan. and with that this photo I took in 2003 at a temple complex on the back streets of the Tokyo section of Asakusa suddenly floated to the surface of pile of things---and a card was born. A tenugui maker in Asakusa took me to the temple, which was one of his favorites. It was popular too with tea ceremony aficionados, who often rent space there to hold gatherings.

autumn in new brunswick

The Canadian postcrosser who sent this card wrote that she is new to postcrossing and worried about finding pretty cards to send. Well, this one is gorgeous! Autumn is my favorite season but the card arrived on a day when the prunus out front suddenly burst into deliriously fragrant blossom. Nothing like it.

look to what is beneath

Detail from the Summer Reading series by Jozef Bajus.

Friend Jozef Bajus is having a small show of his obsessively cut and folded books in the Peter A. and MaryLou Vogt Gallery at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Called Look to What Is Beneath, the show runs until May 23. This card arrived today on the heels of an email message from Jozef.

live the dream

I'm sending this ad card from 10 years ago to Mrs. October, my old baseball pal.

where turtles cry

What was I thinking?

angel of spring

A Finnish postcrosser "desperately waiting for spring" sent this Angel of Spring by Paivi Mansikka-aho.

stamps

more pussy willows

Another in the pussy willow series. This one I made to use as a thank-you card for a friend who suddenly sent a cool necklace she got for me in India. I didn't even know she had gone to India.

cat in autumn

A German postcrosser who loves cats sent this postcard. Or maybe it's a New Year tribute. Lest we forget, in Vietnam this is the year of the cat, not rabbit.

almada, city of theater

A young Portuguese postcrosser named Joao who studies theater sent this postcard from his native town of Almada, for 500 years a stronghold of theater in his country. He wrties that Gil Vicente, the father of Portuguese theater, was born in Almada. The card shows the Center of Contemporary Art, with Lisbon in the background. Joao takes studies theater at the center.

time for stamps