perjantai 6. toukokuuta 2022

Morning Coffee

Good Tuesdday morning


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Good Moorning , Illustration by Moryachok, Paper Postcards

Sent by Angelika on 25 Mar, 2020 from Ahaus, Germany

 

torstai 5. toukokuuta 2022

Traditional Dolls

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Traditional Russian rag doll "Kubishka-herbalist" is full of herbs - mint, oregano, St. John's wort. If it's mash, spread around the room a nice herbal flavor. In ancient times, "Kubishka-herbalist" used to purify the air.
Sent by Victoria on 8 Oct, 2014 from Surgut, Russia 
Travel time 26 days


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Matryoshka set in a row
Sent by Olesya on 9 Dec, 2014 from Chernushka, Russia
Travel time 15 days

 

keskiviikko 4. toukokuuta 2022

Flower Day

Madeira, Portugal
Orchids in the Quinta da Boa Vista
Sent by our friends on 7 Jan, 2007 from Madeira

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Minnesota Wild Flowers
Sent by Jessica on 28 Jan, 2018 from North Branch, Minnesota
Teavel time 14 days


Upper Left: WoodLily
Upper Right: Round -Loped Hrpatica "Hepayica Americana"

Center Left: Blue Flag "Iris Versicolor"
Center Right: Dragon's Mouth " Arethusa Bulboa

Lowe Left: Yellow Lady's  Slipper "Cypripedium Calclous"



 

Women in Science

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Biologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942-) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.

Seny by Irina on 3 Mar, 2022 from Sank Blasien, Germany
Travel time 11 days


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Elizabeth Blackburn
Molecular Biologist
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (1948 - ) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate.  She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. 

Sent by Allison on 8 Dec, 2019 from Lawrense, Kansas
Travel time 10 days


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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Theoretical physicist
Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906 – 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.

Sent by Yoonjeong on 26 Aug, 2021 fromCheonan, South Korea 
Travel time 197 days


 

tiistai 3. toukokuuta 2022

Street views

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Samarkand
Shoshi Zinda. The south group

Sent by Tanya on 24 Jul, 2019 from Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Travel time 28 days


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Flatiron Building, San Francisco
Vintage postcard reprint. 1930

Sent by Charlene on 18 Sep, 20220 from South Suburban,  Illinois, U.S.A.
Travel time 17 days

 

Hamburg canal, bridge and buildings.Germany
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Hamburg canal, bridge and buildings.

Sent by Marielen on 15 Jul, 2017 from Hamburg, Germany
Travel time 16 days


Chalki, Naxos, Greece
Fb-Swap, Random March
Sent by Hanna on 18 Mar, 2022 from Tampere, Finland


Mykonos Greece
Sent by Marit on 1 Jul, 2020 




maanantai 2. toukokuuta 2022

Map Monday- El Camino Real

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California/ New Mexico - El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail - Postcrossing Meet-Up April 2, 2016

Sent by Sam-Quito on 10 May, 2016 from New Mexico
Travel time 10 days

 

sunnuntai 1. toukokuuta 2022

Sunday churches

Basilica di San Marco, Venice, Italy 
Postcards I bought on my visit to Venice 


 Mascoli's Chapel


The Narthex- Third dome of Joseph


Nave and Prespytery



Storkyrka
The Great Church, Stockholm, Sweden
Storkyrkan also called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of Saint Nicholas), is the oldest church in Stockholm. It was consecrated to Saint Nicholas in 1306 but construction of the church probably started in the 13th century.