Two postcards to lighten the winter gloom.
Market Place, St. Lucia, West Indies
Castries Town and Harbor, St. Lucia, West Indies
In the 1970’s we spent 2 years in this lovely location.
St Lucia – West Indies
Singapore River
Singapore River
Reverse side of Singapore River
Note the August 1953 postmark
Lone Sea Gull
Lone Sea Gull
This is an “ancient” photo which I took years ago. I m surprised I still have it. I think it dates from my teens and would have been snapped more than 70 years ago. I was amazed to catch this gull in full flight.
Geology Tackles an Earlier Time That It Got Hot
Pause for thought!
About 56 million years ago, the Earth experienced something called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The Earth’s atmosphere warmed by about 6.5° C, and sea surface temperatures by about 5° C. There was serious ocean acidification, which is associated with very high CO2 levels in the atmosphere. It’s too long after the Dinosaur Killer’s cataclysmic arrival 9 million years earlier for that catastrophe to have played a role. After the PETM, it took about 170,000 years for the planet to cool back down to pre-PETM levels.
Geologists have suspected that the contemporaneous opening of the northern Atlantic Ocean by rifting might…
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An Old Family Photo
From left to right – Aunt Alice, Janet, my Mother, Aunt Libby – (the 3 sisters and me)
Milford New Hampshire, 1992?
Another Postcard From The Roosevelt Expedition
Zebras and Gnus
Zebras and Gnus. This is an actual photograph taken at a distance of about a mile with a telephoto lens, by the official photographer with the Roosevelt expedition. It shows the animals of the Africa uplands as they graze. The Athi plains are covered with hers of giraffes, zebras, zebras, ostriches, gnus, buffaloes, antelope, wildebeestes. There are also golden and black jackets, wild dogs and other animals that prey upon these. Many of these may be seen from the windows of the trains on the Uganda railway.
More Postcards From The Roosevelt Expedition
Hunting Big Game
Hunting Big Game. The African jungle is extremely dense. Gigantic trees grow here and the underbrush is so thick that it is difficult to penetrate it. Frequently the hunter makes his way through on elephants back., the elephant breaking trail for the porters, who follow, There is a great deal of jungle in Uganda in which Col. Roosevelt is now hunting. The foliage is in many cases is magnificent in color, and all kinds of tropical beasts and birds inhabit the dense growth, remarkable monkeys and brilliantly colored denizens of the air.
The King of the Masai Velt
The King Of The Masai Velt. Many go into Africa with cameras to take shots at animals at close range with the lens. Kermit Roosevelt is the official photographer with the Roosevelt expedition. This view is one of the most admirable specimens of a photo taken of a lion. It shows the slinking, noiseless way in which the king of beasts proceeds stealthily through the jungle.
I Never Knew…..
I never knew that my husband had a “hidden” aunt. This aunt died in 1916 – to my knowledge she was never mentioned. My mother-in-law often talked of losing her first born at the age of 5 or 6 days but never of her older sister who died at the age of 20.
She was born long before my husband was born in 1933. Eileen Elizabeth born 1896, died 1916. Through my genealogy research I discovered her. To be truthful, my daughter-in-law discovered her.
Working On My Postcard Collection
I’ve been working on my postcard collection, trying to put more order into the growing pile of cards. I have favorite categories and albums for each one. So far, my categories are Africa, Ogunquit Maine, Middlebury College, Nantucket,, Dogs and Cats, Boston Massachusetts.
It would be nice if I were starting from scratch but I already have my albums more or less filled at random. So I am shuffling cards around.
e.g. Here’s a nice old card of Lake Dunmore and Mt. Moosalamoo in the Green Mountains in Vermont. This card will be in the Middlebury College group. Mt Moosalamoo was the destination for our freshman hike at Middlebury College in 1954.
Mt Moosalamoo, Lake Dunmore in the Green Mountains
R-Moosalamoo
Note: Why is the size of the photo of front of the card larger than the photo of the message side? Answer: I don’t know.
A Favorite Postcard
Route Map of Mr. Roosevelt’s Hunting Trip
Map of Africa. The Roosevelt party reached their hunting grounds by way of the Uganda Railway, a line of railroad which was built seven years ago and which brought the light of modern civilization into a region of barbarism, of naked savages and of tribal warfare. From Mombasa the party proceeded to Nairobi, the capital of British East Africa. After hunting in the country round about, they proceed to Port Florence, the Eastern terminus of the Uganda Railway. This is on the shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza. From there they take boat to Entebbe, the capital of Uganda, and then proceed by caravan to Gondokoro. They then go down the Nile by steamer to Khartum and thence by the Sudan Military Railway to Wadi Haifa. They will proceed to Cairo, arriving there in April, 1910. Mr. Roosevelt will then make a brief journey in Europe, returning to America in the summer of 1910.
This postcard was published by Arthur Capper, Topeka, Kansas
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