a postcard image of a watercolor and pencil work done in 1938 by the artist Leonard Squirrell
Category: Postcards
The Year of the Pig
a postcard from the Museum of Country Life, Ireland
This card depicts children in traditional clothing attending to pigs on the Aran Islands, County Galway. None the boy is wearing a skirt. I wonder when this photo was taken.
A Postcard Found
A postcard I purchased quite a few years ago at one of the Dublin City Bookfairs. I thought the woman resembled my mother. It disappeared for years, but today it unexpectedly reappeared. Hooray. I still think the presumably English woman resembles my mother.
In this photo taken in Lincolnshire in 1934, the woman in the center is my mother (but before she married and gave birth to me)
A Place Forgone
Postcard – Place et Statue de Stanislas L’Hotel de Ville et La Cathedrale
Once upon a time, long ago, I had a scholarship to study in Nancy in the North of France. For a variety of reasons I decided not to avail myself of this honor. A path not taken.
War Time London
This postcard from December 1915 just suggests the atmosphere and mood of London in WW1. The message on the reverse is a greeting expressing Best Wishes for 1916.
Peanuts
Peanut stacks drying in the sun – another postcard acquisition
Postcard Day
It was a day for going through boxes and boxes of postcards at the meeting of the Postcard Collectors Club. I found some nice cards to add to my collection.
For example – isn’t he a cutie?
Lithograph by Edouard Manet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Postcard Sunday Is Near
The first Sunday of each month a meeting of the Pacific Northwest Postcard Collectors Club is held. In anticipation of the March meeting I am going to post some of my cards. I’m never quite sure what I am going to look for, nor what I am going to find, at each meeting.That’s part of the fun.Last month I got sort of carried away by Sheep. The seller has promised to bring more “sheep” cards this month. I am also going to be on the lookout for dogs and cats. And cards from places where I have lived and traveled.
Skiing in Norway
Not to forget my interests in knitting and weaving
A good solid dog
Where I worked one summer long ago – Brush & Needle Studio in Ogunquit Maine – (now Barnacle Billie’s, popular with the Bush family)
another dog
Sheep – The End
Stock Yards, Chicago Illinois
Sheep in Scotland
Stack Polly and the road to Achiltibuie Wester Ross
