Flowers on window

To each window its flower, to each life its dream ♥

 

Windows

Edition Postallove.com 

Sent by Nadja from The Netherlands 

Mediterranean house facade in Rousset-Les- Vignes, France

Photo Norbert Kustos

Sent by Karin from Germany 

 

Buildings

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Goethe House, Frankfurt, Germany

Sent by Helga on 28 May 2022 from Basel Germany 

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West Indian Goods Sale om Salem Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Sent by"novemberhope" on 31 Jul, 2014 from Offenburg, Germany

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Utrecht, Oudegracht

The Oudegracht, or "old canal", runs through the center of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Warehouses used to line the canal. Today many of these warehouses have been converted into restaurants and cafés.

Sent by Ronald on 19 Sep, 2020 from Kerkrade. 

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Talsi, Latvia

View from the Church Hill. Photo M. Vanaga

Sent by Linda on 26 Oct, 2014 from Riga Latvia

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Mississippi River Road Plantations. Louisiana, U.S.A.

Sent by Nova on 20 Feb, 2014 from  Fort Scott, Kansas

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Driving School

Photo Olga Davletbaeva

Sent by Irena on 20 Jan 2014 from Minsk, Belarus

Doors and Windows

Downing Street Nr.10 , London

Sent by Sandra on 1 Jul, 2018 from Luxemburg

Traditional Wooden Hanseatic Merchants Buildings of the Bryggen, in Harbour, Bergen, Norway

Sent by Jenny on 28 Apr, 2019 from Erfurt, Germany

Greece, Blue Door

Sent by Nadin from Halberstadt, Germany

 View in New York

Sent by Christine from Mannheim, Germany

Greek village

Sent by Sveta from Nizhny Tagil, Russia

Doors and Windows

Porto, Portugal

A Pérola do Bolhão, a  grocery store in Porto

Pérola do Bolhão is a traditional grocery store founded in 1917 by António Rodrigues Reis. It has an Art Nouveau façade, lined with tiles with references to the spice route.

Sent by my friend Soili on 5 Jul, 2015 from Paço de Arcos, Portugal

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Latvia. Nice Place. Photo Zane Ernstreite

Sent by Iveta on 23 Dec, 2020 from Valmiera, Latvia

Random five

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Country house with two windows

Sent by Lena on 29 Sep, 2018 from St. Petersburg, Russuia

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Cologne on the Rhine, Germany

Sent by Dirk on 21 Apr 2022 from Cologne   

Chania, Crete, Greece

Seny by my family on their vacation to Crete on 2020

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Dock at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany

Sent by Gabi on 9 Jul 2015 from Bitterfeld Wolfen

 

Windows

Window flowers, Photo Garry Knight

Lisbon, Portugal. Photo Sandro Cabrita

Sent by my friend Soili on 28 Jul, 2018 from Lisbon

 

Windows

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Tür und Tor, Photo Frank Rosemann

Sent by Heike on 14 Jul, 2015 from Stade, Germany

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House on blossom. Photo Udo Haafke

Sent by Thorsten on 16 Jul, 2015 from Gologne, Germany

 

Windows

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Country home window, Cherries in blossom. Photo Irina Bratkova

Sent by Elena on 28 May, 2018 from Moscow, Russia

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Counry house window.

Sent by Sarita on 14 Jul, 2017 from Riga Latvia.

 

Frosty day

FB-swap, Winter magic

Photo by Hannu Hautala (Finnish)

Sent by Satu ( Turku, Finland) 

Christmas

Frozen window

Received on 23 Dec. 2021

 

Windows to better times

Windows with flowers

Sent by Zdenka in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

on 13 Sep, 2014

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,435 km

received on 19 Sep, 2014

Sent by Olga in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia

 on 25 Oct, 2015

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 2,022 km

received on 10 Nov, 2015

 Typical rural window in South Ostrobothnia region Finland

Thursday Mail

 Venetian-Byzantine-style windows. Photo Danita Delimont

Venedig, Italy 2018

Sent by Nicola in Lehre, Germany 

on 29 Feb, 2020

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,330 km

received on 5 Mar, 2020 

Görlitz old town, Oberlausitz, Photo Toma Babovic

Germany 2018

Sent by Luisa in Berlin, Germany

on 29 Feb, 2020

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,237 km

 2020 received on 5 Mar

Monday Mail - Montreal and Mûnster

The colorful and quaint facades of Old Montreal homes.

Sent by Veronique in Montreal

sent on 27 Sep, 2019

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 5,887 km

 received on 9 Oct, 2019

Beautiful Münster, Germany

Sent by Bastian in Münster
sent on 25 Aug, 2019
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,464 km

Münste is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany.

Winter Night

Illustration Anastasiya Melnikova, Russia

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,149 km

received on 27 Dec, 2017 

From Nastya in  Moscow

Art today

Edward Hopper.  Hills, South Truro, 1930 sent by Michael in Herford, Germany

Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

 Ivana Kobilca (1861- 1926), Woman Drinking Coffee, 1888 sent by Alenka in Koper, Slovenia

Ivana Kobilca is the most prominent Slovene female painter and a key figure of Slovene cultural identity. She was a realist painter who studied and worked in Vienna, Munich, Paris, Sarajevo, Berlin, and Ljubljana.She mostly painted oil paintings and pastels, whereas her drawings are few.The themes include still life, portraits, genre works, allegories, and religious scenes. 

 August Macke (1887 - 1914 ). Indians, 1911 sent by Heike in Bavaria/Germany

August Macke  was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe.

 Hans Olde (1885-1917)  Grand duchess Caroline of Saxony Weimar, 1903 sent by Dietmas in Munich, Germany 

Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Olde was a German painter and art school administrator.

 Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890). Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) Paris, October - November 1887 sent by Amy in Manchester, England

Van Gogh admired Japanese woodcuts for their bright colours and distinctive compositions. He based this painting of a bridge in the rain on a print by the famous artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Van Gogh made the colours more intense than in the original.

 Alfons Mucha.  Window, St Vitus Cathedral, Prague from  Eliška in Prague, Czech Republic

The stained glass windows are of special to St. Vitus Cathedra and  Alfons Mucha, the Czech Art Nouveau painter, was responsible for the new stained glass windows in the north wall of the cathedral during the 20th century.