This is another TUCK postcard.
Sweet Kitten
Author: Janet McKee
I currently wear many hats. My interests are genealogy, history, reading, knitting, and more. I now live in an assisted living retirement community.
For a Hot Day
This is an old postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Produced for the Rhodesia Railways.
I wonder how the water level today compares with the water level 50+ years ago.
And Now for Something Completely Different: Mirounga leonina
An excellent article.
All of the Southern Ocean’s South Georgia Island is spectacular, but Gold Harbor, near the southeastern end of the 106-mile long sub-Antarctic Island is a stunner. With the hanging icefall of Bertrab Glacier looming over the long arc of the gravel-shored bay, Gold Harbor teems with wildlife. Southern Fur Seals, like those in the foreground here, some 25,000 pair of breeding King Penguins, a small colony of 300 or so pairs of Gentoo Penguins, even an endemic pipit species; as well as the star of the show. Those would be the largest member of the seal family, the largest carnivore that isn’t a cetacean and an animal so incredibly homely that they are pretty cute. They can fart continuously for a stopwatch-measured 45 seconds and likely belch even longer. They are Southern Elephant Seals, Mirounga leonine, and WC got to spend some…
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Symmetry In Kittens
The Treasured Four
This photo was taken over 20 years ago in New Hampshire in July 2000.
I am with my sisters and sister-in-law. What fun we had at many family gatherings and travel adventures together.
Sadly though 3 of the 4 have passed and my days of adventure are receding but they are not over yet!!
(p.s. In the photo I am wearing strange glasses – I have no idea where those came from!)
Stamp Collecting
I suspect that a stamp collector cut out the corner of this beautiful postcard – beautiful faces, beautiful beadwork.
When My Aunt and My Mother Were The Age I Am Now (Approximately)
This photo was taken in Hawaii. The man in the center is Craig, a grandson
There was a 5 year difference in age between my mother and her sister. I never thought about that difference but it became more significant in their later years.
Aerial View – Ogunquit Maine
Main Street
Have you ever seen a more deserted Main Street? Here it is – an old postcard of Hillsboro Big New Hampshire. A postcard with hardly room for a message.
Note the 1907 postmark
Yorkshire Terrier
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