Norfolk Hotel

Location for our wedding reception – February 1968

Fond memories!

Combined harvester, Oregon

This quite the image I want to illustrate the muddle I feel I am in but…….there are a lot of things happening in my life right now and I feel I kind of need to pause for a moment and slowly let things fall into place.

It’s World Labyrinth Day. Should I go walk the labyrinth at our local church? Will that help?

1. The Librarian of Burned Books by Briana Labuskes
2. White Noise by Don DeLillo
3. An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten
4. Sometimes I Sits and Thinks by Jim Webster
5. Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigliani
6. Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carre
7. Gossip from Thrush Green by Miss Read
8. Over the Gate by Miss Read

Grand Central Station and New York Central Building

This view shows driveway along Park Ave. Looking north from 40th Street towards Grand Central Station and New York Central Building in background.

Carding Raw Cotton? I am not sure about this image. The postmark points to Willington Island. Is this raw cotton imported and subsequently sorted?

Reverse side

Reverse side

This postcard has been sitting on my desk for a long time. I have been puzzling about where it was from. Lightning bulb moment – on the reverse side of the card note the word Katarka. With the help of Google maps I found Katarka in West Bengal, India. Hooray – mystery solved. That was my geography lesson. The joy of collecting postcards.

Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, Fiji Islands.

Reverse side

This postcard of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Fiji doesn’t really do it justice. It was a magnificent hotel surrounded by lush tropical greenery. We stayed there in the mid-1970’s. This was our initial hostelry while we looked for a house to rent for two years. What an introduction it was to dengue fever which was raging throughout the Fiji Islands just at that time. We were so sick – one by one we succumbed. But thankfully we each got better and could pursue the normal activities associated with arriving in a new place. And I can remember the Grand Pacific Hotel, and a certain Dr. Mehta, with fondness despite being so sick there. Fiji was a wonderful posting. I wanted to stay there forever!

A colorful little watercolor to brighten your day.

Good Morning

Reverse side

Wall Painting at Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace – Karnatak

Again I appreciate the warm yellow and brown tones in this wall art. Karnatak is in the southwestern part of India. It was formerly Mysore state.