Windmill Wing

Received August 4, 2010

Official: NL-393954

I would have not know what it was if the sender had not stated that it is a photo of part of a windmill wing.

Holland

Received December 12, 2009

Ok, I finally had to go look this up because it's always confused me. The card says Holland on the front but it was an official card sent from The Netherlands. Now I always thought the two terms were interchangeable. Just two different names for the same country. I was wrong. Holland is a region within the country of the Netherlands. Now I know! :)

Playing catch up

Time to play a little game of catch up. I'm sure I'll be doing alot of that! I've got five cards received since Saturday that I'm posting today. This is why we're not doing too many tags and swaps.......I know I'll have a hard time keeping up!!

We got a couple cards on Saturday Jan. 6th. The first is a card from a friend (not through postcrossing) but still wanted to share it. My daughter's friend and her family were in Hawaii at the end of December and sent us this card.


Next is a card from one of our first tags. This was a US to US tag. We got a cool one from Florida with a pic of the state from space.


On Monday came this this map card from Holland, a private swap from someone looking for state capitol cards so this is what we chose in return.


Yesterday (Tuesday) we received two more. This is from a US state viewcard tag. A great view of some farmland in Iowa.


And last, but not least a trade from Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a postcard created from a personal photo that she took. Great view of the mountain and moon.
That is something I'd like to do soon, create my own postcards from photos I've taken. One of my passions is photography and I just got a new digital SLR! I love it. And in case you're wondering.........you can never have too many cameras!!

You've got mail!

Well, after a few days with no mail service because of the new year and the post office being closed for a national day of mourning........former president Ford died.......we received 3 cards in yesterday's mail.

The first is an official card from India (IN-1617).
A photo of the backwaters of Kerala:


The sender wrote our names in the native Malayalam script, which was cool to see!

Next was an official card from Finland (FI-111750).
A multiview card of some Finnish landscapes, their flag and a map:

And the third one received was a private card from The Netherlands. We got this one from the woman who turned us on to postcrossing in the first place, a friend from another message board that I belong to that mentioned in to the group one day. Thanks, Sandra!!


Here is that card:




We did also receive on card from the Ukraine today, but I have yet to scan that one. It will be included in the next entry. Waiting to see what the mail man will bring us next time!
We have plans to work on getting some more out in the mail this Saturday afternoon. We have some cards to get out that we promised in return and for trade.

Later :)