This card shows the city hall, the church and the wall of the theatre, all designed by Alvar Aalto.
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Fishing nets are kept in these sheds in Altja, a fishing village in Estonia. Lovely!
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The farmhouse of Liinamaa. I just love how simple and beautiful this is. My penpal Marja tells me that the straw mobile hanging from the ceiling is a typical traditional orament.
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This is not a postcard. Instead, it is from a brochure sent to me by my penpal Marja in Seinajoki, home of the famous architect Alvar Aalto. His work is beautiful! I especially love this church building! Marja sent this to me after my request for more information about it! This church is marvelous, inside and out. And although I know that God does not dwell in buildings made with human hands, I still am in awe of the talent He has given to man to create such wonders!
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This is in the convent of Lintula, in northeastern Finland — from what my penpal tells me, the only Finnish Orthodox Convent.
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Another card from the series: “The night scene of seaside city in Tokyo. Ordinary, well-composed. Its shiny lights excites you.” 🙂
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How cute and quaint! I love to see the various places people gather to worship!
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Let It Be. Thanks to my sister Maria for this — it’s a real treasure in my collection 🙂 (I used to love the Beatles; bought my first Beatles album, The Red Album, the very night John Lennon was shot.)
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Sorry for the poor scan; our scanner doesn’t quite know what to do when cards have black borders. Anyway, this is one of the oldest churches in Finland and a former convent. Naantali = vallis gratize = valley of Grace.
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My sister brought me a series of eight of these neat cards. The text on the bottom reads: “The beautiful white night sight. It sublimates your spirit. Be more ambitious; You’ll make it!” I love their use of English 🙂
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This is Johnston Road, Wanchai. The tram service began in 1904 and continues to be a vital part of Hong Kong’s transportation system. Today’s trams are probably the largest, most inventive collection of moving billboards in the world! Thanks to Ameko for this wonderful card!
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Again, this beautiful card goes against what I consider stereotypical Australia — you know, kangaroos, deserts, the great barrier reef and Crocodile Dundee 🙂 This is a beautiful, colorful card!
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I usually don’t post ad cards here, but this is an ad card from my penpal Claudia in Brasil! She has just opening a new bookstore specializing in children’s books! Awesome!
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“Feel the full force of a space launch as you blast off on the most intense thrill ride in any Disney Park.” Well…I’ve always wanted to feel what a launch is like, but this might be too intense for me now in my old age 🙂
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Performing in Old Town, San Diego, California; such beautiful outfits!!
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This photo doesn’t do this gorgeous silver, shiny postcard justice. I’ve been to Epcot several times, seeing I lived in Florida for more than 20 years. My mom recently went and got me this postcard 🙂 I’d like to go back with the kids someday.
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This just doesn’t look like the stereotypical Australia. I guess that’s why we should work hard NOT to stereotype!
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I was amazed to get this card as an official postcrossing card! If you like travel essays, read this one called A Morning in Iceland about a long layover in Iceland: www.idlewords.com/2003/11/a_morning_in_iceland.htm. It’s fascinating!
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This, according to the sender, is the only Russian Orthodox convent in Estonia. Look how neat the buildings are!
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Beautiful! What more can I say?!
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A series of caves, the most prominent of which looks like a natural cathedral and is used by the town folk for native rituals.
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City view of Ortigas Avenue. As the sender points out, you can see the Robinson’s Galleria Mall and Edsa Shrine. An amazing view of a country I will probably never see in person!
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This card comes from an other continent round robin; beautiful!
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My parents brought this for me from their latest cruise. The Temple of the Warriors, seen here, was once an important site in this ancient Mayan capital.
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I love postcards! Really, I love learning about other peoples, places and cultures…and postcards is a way to let me do that from the comfort of my home 🙂
As you’ll see from this site, I really got into the hobby again over the last year (I’ve been doing this on and off since my teen years). In the process, I’ve collected for my sending and swapping inventory loads of postcards from the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and other areas. I have stopped swapping, however, because of 1) time — since I found a new church home, my time is much more limited; 2) cost — it now costs as much to send 1 postcard overseas as it costs to send 5 — 90 cents!; and 3) too many bad swappers out there who don’t fulfill their swaps.
So this leaves me with a huge supply of cards just beggin’ to be sent.
Since I love reading the blogs of foreign missionaries, and since I know missionaries love receiving mail, I thought I would offer postcards–with information about the views written on the back if and when I can–to any foreign missionary who asks!
OR — and thanks to Jim Cottrill at www.missionary-blogs.com for this idea — if you KNOW of a missionary and would like to have cards send to them on your behalf, then you, too are welcome to take advantage of this opportunity!
I promise that what I send will be suitable for everyone’s eyes … this is a hobby I enjoy with my children so you don’t have to worry about that!
To get the cards, all you have to do is send me an e-mail at carolinaren at bellsouth dot net.
If You’re a Missionary
Please send me your name and mailing address and tell me that you’d like some postcards. Don’t feel shy in asking, I really get so much pleasure out of sending these cards out — and I don’t want anything in return!
If You’re the Friend of a Missionary
Please send me your name and a note or scripture you want included so I can tell the missionary you asked me to send the cards, as well as the missionary’s name and mailing address.
That’s all!
I look forward to hearing from you! I am pleased to do this as I’ve been wondering what in the world I was going to do with all these extra postcards!
Renae 🙂
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I can’t read anything on this card. But I love it 🙂 Beautiful Brazil! From my penpal Claudia 🙂
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love this card; the women dancing in their native attire–beautiful! Thanks to Hamid in Iran.
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This lovely, busy view comes from my penpal Marji in Finland! She said that the red and white ships come and go, and that their next stop from here is Tallinn, Estonia or Stockholm, Sweden. Even more fascinating is just the busy life going on there–all the shoppers and vendors…everyone going about their business 🙂
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San Diego harbor and skyline. I’ve never been to the west coast–it looks lovely! From my postcard pal Amy–thanks!
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