Advent calendar Day 3.

 Christmas in Moominland

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Merry Christmas to Angeliz in Wisconsin U.S.A.

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Iowa Oak Tree

Iowa Mornings

Sent by Sharon from Ankeny, Iowa

Tuesday tree

Interior of the ancient Much Marcle Yew, with a girth of 30 feet in St.Bartholomew churchyard, Herefordshire, United Kingdom 

Sent by Lorna frm Malvern Hills

Winter magic

Winter Magic FB-swap

Winter Magic FB-swap

Winter Magic

 FB-swap. Photo Terho Pelkonen

Winter Magic

 FB-swap.

Ice and Snow

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The Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina

UNESCO World Heritage

Received on 15 Apr, 2021 

Sent by Jenny (Zachenberg, Germany)

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Rotbuchen auf dem Schauinsland im Schwarzwald, Germany

Received on 28 Sep, 2018

Sent by Conny ( Flörsheim am Main)

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Received on 11 Dec, 2013

Sent by Piet ( Reuver, The Netherlands) 

 

Trees

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BRAVE THE DARK AND BEHOLD THE WONDERS

Harry Potter,  Forbidden Forest

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Fairytale dream, Photo E. Shrener,
Emily postcards Russia 2013

 

Mailbox Today

Verboot Rottum

sent by Rineke in Barneveld, The Netherlands 

on 16 Sep, 2020

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,520 km

 Dutch Front Doors

sent by Nienke in Almere Stad, The Netherlands

on 16 Sep, 2020

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,513 

Illustration von "Ich bleibe immer bei dir" von Sjoerd Kuijper

Illustration by Marit Törmqvist

sent by Xaphy in Bilthoven, The Netherlands

 on 17 Sep, 2020

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,535 km

Facebook swap "Illustrated birds"

"The Cornet" by David Hurrel

Sent by Päivi in Lahti, Finland 

Silver fir - Abies alba

sent by Hartmut in  Hennigsdorf, Germany

on 15 Sep, 2020

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,230 km

Mailbox today

Birch forest in Brandenburg, Germany

Sent by Steffi in Borken Germany 

on 14 Sep, 2020

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,502 km

received on 21 Sep, 2020

Pennsylvania 

" The Keystone State"

State Animal - White-tailed-Deer

Tree - hemlock

Bird - Ruffed Grouse

Fish - Brook Trout

Insect - Firefly

Flower- Mountain Laurel

Sent by Bobb in Brackenridge, PA, U.S.A.

 on 6 Sep, 2020

travel time 15 days

distance travelled 6,639 km

received on 21 Sep, 2020

Scenic Sunday

 Western Redcedar 

Hoh River Valley in Olympic National Park

Washington State, U.S.A.

Sent by Mary in Everett, Washington State

on 31 Mar, 2017

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 7,309 km

 Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.

Sent by Müller and Hanrè in Cape Town, South Africa

13 Mar, 2015

travel time 60 days

distance travelled 10,719 km

Altai, Dawn above the North-Chuya Ridge, Russia

Sent by Lena in Nižnevartovsk, Russia
on 20 Oct, 2014
travel time 14 days
distance travelled 2,771 km

Received today

Palms - top to bottom, from left: Bacaba, Coco de mer, Bottle palm, Coconut, Dwarf palmetto

Botanicum by Katie Scott, Kathy Wills and the Templar Company

Sent by Jenny in Stevenage, England, UK

 on 25 Mar, 2020

travel time 63 days

distance travelled 1,776 km

Casablanca also here

Sent by Chloë in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

 on 17 May, 2020

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 1,656 km

To the nature

 Bicycle Parking Prohibited

Sent by Ilona in Harderwijk, Holland

 on 28 Mar, 2020

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 1,500 km

received on 8 Apr, 2020 

Morning on Metzisweiler Weiher The Allgäu, Germany

Sent by Archie in  King's Lynn, England

 on 28 Mar, 2020

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 1,677 km

received on 6 Apr, 2020 

Česká krajina Vysočina - Czech landscape - Vysočina

Sent by Martina in Prague, Czech Republic

on 25 Mar, 2020

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 1,473 km

 received on 8 Apr, 2020

Sky and Ocean

Sent by Inka in Langenhagen, Germany
 on 13 Apr, 2020
travel time 16 days
distance travelled 1,347 km
received on  29 Apr, 2020 

April virtual art tour day 25.

Since all museums are closed I decided to start a virtual art tour  ♥ welcome, and enjoy  today's tour with  two Ferdinands and Vlad  

Trees

The Lilac, 1890

Ferdinand Hodler ( Swiss, 1853 - 1918)

Museum of Art and History, Geneva

Sent by Reinhard in Lasberg, Austria

 on 6 Apr, 2019

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,645 km

received on 15 Apr, 2019 

Forest Landscape from hammaslahti, 1880

Ferdinand von Wright ( Finnish 1822-1906)

Finnish National Gallery -  Ateneum Art museum, Helsinki

My von Wright Brothers postcard collection

Of the five von Wright brothers, three were artists:

Magnus von Wright (1805–1868)

Wilhelm von Wright (1810–1887)

Ferdinand von Wright (1822–1906)

Sun in the forest, 2012

Vlad Kravchuk ( Russian 1977- )

Private collection 

Sent by Liubov in St Petersburg, Russia 

 on 25 Dec, 2015

travel time 35 days

distance travelled 538 km

received on 29 Jan, 2016 

Ice Cream ♥ and Wisteria♥

Mobile Softee

Ice Cream Truck in Hong Kong

Sent by Chau yi, Hong Kong

on 29 Feb, 2020

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 7,928 km

received on 9 Mar, 2020 

 The red, white, and blue exterior of the trucks together with The Blue Danube tune they play are part of the collective memory of many Hongkongers. 

Japanese 150-year-old wisteria

Ashikaga Flower Park

Sent by Chinatsu in Nagoya, Japan

on 1 Mar, 2020

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 7,703 km

 received on 9 Mar, 2020

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants, that includes ten species of woody climbing bines that are native to China, Korea, Japan, and the Eastern United States.

Trees

Wisdom of the tree

Bilych Carpathian Region

Sent by Helena in Kralove, Czech Republic

sent on 26 Jul, 2019

travel time 8 days

Vacations in the countryside

Sent by Valeria in Minsk, Belarus

sent on 22 Jul, 2019

travel time 20 days

Road through the forest

Sent by Christin in Tangermünde, Germany

sent on 27 Jul, 2019

travel time 9 days

Three Randoms Part 4.

Eesti/Estonia 

Photo Margit Kurvits

Sent by my sister and her children on their vacation to Pärnu, Estonia in 2013

Martta Wendelin (1893-1986)

She illustrated fairy tales and school books, and drew postcards and magazine covers. The high time of her career was in 1930s, when magazines were able to use good quality images, but use of photographs was not yet that common.

Sent by Jenna, Alavus, Finland

sent 12 Apr, 2019

travel time 5 days

Spring time.

The birches

Claudia sent warm Easter greetings from Germany.

sent 14 Apr, 2019

travel time 4 days

Trees

Joshua Tree National Park, California U.S.A.

US-6008943

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 7,472 km

sent by Chelsea, in Fort Payne, Alabama

Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of Los Angeles, near San Bernardino and Palm Springs. The park is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. 

 Autumn 

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travel time 4 days

distance travelled 1,471 km'

sent by Pavla in Prague

Summer

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travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,179 km

sent by Christina in Schwerin 

Trees in art

The Little Bridge, Pontoise,  1875

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Danish- French Impressionist 

Direct swap sent by Patricia from France

Fruit trees 1901

Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) 

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travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,680 km

sent by Marie-Paule from Leuven

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter.   In Fruit Trees Klimt for the first time shows his new manner of painting. This impressionistic- neopontillistic style became Klimt?s trademark in his landscape paintings.

October 1883

Yefim (Efim) Volkov (1844-1920) Russia

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travel time 10 days

distance travelled 1,189 km

sent by Nikolay in Lyubertsy

Efim Efimovich Volkov was a Russian landscape painter.

Apple Tree with Red Fruits 1902.
Paul Ranson (1863-1909)  France

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travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,733 km
sent by Melissa in Stuttgart

Winter Scenes from Germany

Snowy trees by Lake Starnberger, Bavaria, Germany

travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,217 km
received on 20 Jan, 2017
sent by Silvia

An diesem Augenblicke hängt die Welt. Friedrich Schiller

travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,539 km
received on 11 Oct, 2016
sent by Lena

Christmas tree forest

travel time 7 days
distance travelled 1,632 km
received on 28 Oct, 2016
sent by Michael 

Postcards for the weekend 68. Winter Scenes

Trees

Acacia or Mimosa on the beach. 

From Cassie, Germany

Early Light with Morning Mist

Ruby Beach on the Washington coast of the Olympic National Park, UNESCO World Heritage

From Bob , U.S.A.

Taken from the book: Tree stories

From Alexandra Germany