New member to 365, Chris Davies, has suggested a postcard exchange, and I'd love to do that (in small increments at a time!) For a few years now I've ordered fold-over cards and, breaking the rules (!) I put a photo on the front and a photo on the inside bottom, and behind each picture (the other 2 sides) I print a post card image. Cute them apart and you have two cards to send!
Many years ago I took part in a "Pictorial Postmark" exchange, and can suggest this additional quest if you enjoy making your art/photography/card a bit more interesting. In the PO, ask if they have a Pictorial Cancellation. They will probably ask you what that is! Explain it's a large "rubber stamp" cancellation denoting the city you're mailing from, and would they cancel your card with it. 8 times out of 10 they may not have one. But it's fun if they do, and it will please & surprise your postal clerk as it will you! Here is Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Pictorial with the historic Bluenose on it. Bluenose was built in Lunenburg and is featured on the Canadian dime and on postage stamps, so a fun one to collect!
I love taking part in this exchange as I love postal communication and writing actual letters and cards! Let Chris know via his thread if you want to take part, also! ** (Don't forget to sign your photo!) **
@pyrrhula I'm feeling SO MUCH better, Ferry, I'm giving that lovely recliner back to my neighbor so I don't get lazy! I try to rest a little, but I'm not in much pain. I see the doctor again Friday and I think he'll be pleased with my progress and his good surgical skills! Thanks for asking!
I thought of you yesterday as I photographed a hummingbird at the feeder and we have two flying around the yard : ) It's baby season again!
In previous times all mail was postmarked with the city it was mailed from and the time.. I have so many old letters and postcards of my grandmother's hat are done that way. It's nice to know what year they were sent.... since few people put dates on them.
Great to hear you're on the mend Louise, can't keep a good girl down! Postcards?? I do send a few if/when we're overseas, and get a few from friends who are overseas but not many in either case. Long gone are the cards from a beach holiday. Pity in a way. I like the way you've composed this shot, what a wonderful old-style postmark.
@pcarlaw I needed some postcards, and...how easy! Also, for yourself, it's an excellent way to save some 5 x 7 prints (2 to a card) instead of always ordering prints. Glad you like the idea! Thanks!
@danette Danette, you're always so kind, and thanks, yes, I'm back at my computer desk (formerly known as a dining table!). Must return the recliner before I get too used to "lazing around"!
@golftragic Interesting, your comment about the post cards. It's my Aussie friends who are the most dedicated to sending postcards when away on vacation. My plans are many (including keeping a travel diary), but the follow through is Zip! Hence, when moved to do so, I do like to send a pc or letter to say "Hello", but if the news is important, we can't do without email and texting!
@aglennc Knowing you, you have every letter ever written to you...me, too! I love the old postmarks...that was pertinent information! And I collected stamps...as did my father and his father before him. Now? Who cares?! We're the last keepers of past history, much of which we lived. How fast things are changing....
Interesting idea. Back many years ago, when postcards were still in vogue, my parents asked me to send a postcard from the various locations that I was in as a result of my travel. I complied and never really thought much of it....until my mother presented me with the scrapbook in which she had pasted every card I had sent. Holy cow, what an interesting collection! I had come to write the same message on every card, with the exception of the location. It got to the point where it was simply an acronym. Fun times!
@stray_shooter What a lovely gift from your mother! I *started* something similar for our eldest as Ken and I traveled a lot. I'd send postcards with information about where we were and did put them together for her, but never did it for the length of our travel years. Personally, it's the card location, the foreign stamps and the postmarks that I liked most. Still today I'll rummage for some interesting cards in antique shops, photographing the text and or postmarks to use as collage material...
@stray_shooter I also have a couple of binders of envelopes with Pictorial Postmarks that I'd exchange with others. Not an inexpensive hobby as they're likely worth nothing but the pleasure of pouring over them! (I like your story about your mom's gift to you!)
@Weezilou Well, I used to have all the letters written to me -- (I pen pallled with dozes of people from the age of about ten until computers changed that and me!! I got rid of mot of the letters when we moved up here from San Diego 13 years ago...) I also collected stamps in the first day issue envelope kind. About 15 years ago my mother presented me with several stacks of rubber band bound letters...... One was all the letters I wrote them when I was away at college. Another was the stack I wrote them during the almost three months I was traveling in Europe between the time I graduated from college and when I got married in the following November. I worry that future generations won't have all the family history our generation does because of lack of real letters and the fact the census now do not have all the pieces of history listed that they used to.
@aglennc We're quite alike, you know! I have letters to my grandmother from an early age, and when I discovered I could have a pen pal (listed in the Weekly Reader, I think, I began that! By Jr Hi, in Tucson, my family welcomed UofA exchange students, and I'd write to their sisters. My mother & grandmother saved the letter's I'd written from college; I've never been interested in reading what I wrote, but perhaps my children will want to. In today's age, anything that comes "just for you" through the door slot will brighten a day! And yesterday I had Joy @joysfocus to thank for just that! 24 hours later it's still putting a smile on my face, and what gift could be better than that?!
@Weezilou Oh my - The Weekly Reader!! How well I remember!! Exchange students>? Oh yes... almost 50 of them, stays from six months to five years, averaging a year or more. Several came back for additional stays..... Still in touch was quite a few and very close with several!! Hum! Wonder if I should keep all my writings from college and Europe for my kids to read? Well, they'll probably end up with them, whether they want to read them or not.
@Weezilou Aw gee, thanks! (We are trying to get out of the family genealogy business, hoping someone else will take it over. No one seems to want to....... )
February 1st, 2017
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Are you o.k. again and completly recovered?
I thought of you yesterday as I photographed a hummingbird at the feeder and we have two flying around the yard : ) It's baby season again!