This week’s postcard is not in my collection, but I’m admiring it (and the others in its set) from afar. A collaboration between Kansas City photographer Hannah Huffman and San Francisco artist Lisa Congdon, the limited-edition postcard set features four different diptychs (part photo, part illustration). Thanks to Poppy Talk for cluing me in on this!
This week’s postcard hails from the great red north, where the Winter Olympics Games are well under way… go USA!
DATE: June 2004
FROM: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SENDER: Annemarie
PHOTOGRAPHER: Marin Petkov
DATE: April 2, 2007
FROM: Reno, NV
SENDER: This gem come from the lovely Chérie, who was a coworker turned great friend of mine. As she loved to gift me postcard sets, she is responsible for many of the blank postcards in my collection, like the one below from Lela Lee’s Angry Little Girls series. The set of 30 postcards came in a lemon yellow tin that I’ve since kept to store other postcards.
ARTIST: David & Goaliath
This one’s in the mail to Chérie right now:
Well I’m back from Tulum with a few new postcards I found on my journey, and so I just have to share one with you this week. The weathered, handmade paper was hard to write on!
DATE: February 9, 2010
FROM: Mexico
SENDER: Me, sending this off to a Missouri Postcrossing member first thing tomorrow
ARTIST: José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican engraver, illustrator and artist
This week’s postcard is promotional… it arrived advertising “Shoot First and Ask Questions Later,” an experimental video by Julie Perini that’s showing at Sierra Nevada College’s Prim Library through February 19. The opening reception is on February 11, 5–7 pm, with an artist lecture at 5:15 pm. I’m intrigued, and would find out more, but it says to ask questions later…
DATE: January 27, 2010
FROM: Incline Village, Nevada
SENDER: Sierra Nevada College Fine Arts
It’s a great week to be at home as this snowstorm just won’t quit. Squaw Valley’s reporting the storm total at 76 inches! This postcard hails from a college friend (later to be a Lake Tahoe roommate), who first led me on to Tahoe’s greatness. She’s now headed for greener pastures, and nursing pre-reqs in Santa Cruz.
DATE: February 26, 2004
FROM: Lake Tahoe
SENDER: Ellen
PHOTOGRAPHER: Vance Fox
A storm of epic proportions is currently bidding my friend Ruth farewell. She starts culinary school in Napa next week, so I figured I’d dedicate this week’s postcard (of Ruthie’s Run) in her honor. Hooray for friends on powder days!
FROM: Aspen, Colorado
PHOTOGRAPHER: R.C. Bishop
SENDER: Mom, who was visiting family and going to a rodeo
DATE: July 2001
FROM: Arcata, California
MURALIST: Duane Flatmo, commissioned by Los Bagels Company and Wildwood Music
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lorraine Miller-Wolf
SENDER: Lynx, who says he would be “visiting” here for two years
DATE: September 2007
FROM: Boise, Idaho
CARTOGRAPHER: Idaho Geological Survey
SENDER: Lyndsey, my former college roommate and a geologist who was working on her thesis at the time. She figured I was missing some “good ‘ole geology.” I was, and still am.
DATE: November 14, 2005
*The postcard’s back says you can get the color poster (14 by 20 inches) of this card by sending $3 along with your name and address to the Idaho Geological Survey, Morrill Hall, Third Floor, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3014. Anyone wanna try?
*Thought we’d finish off the year with this Southern delicacy since I just bade my mom and brother goodbye after their Christmas visit to Tahoe.
FROM: Georgia
SENDER: Mom, who asks if I’m hungry for the South :)
DATE: December 5, 2009
INFO: Mix egg and buttermilk in a shallow dish. Working in batches, dip tomato slices into the egg mixture, allowing excess to drip back into dish. Coat with flour mixture. Fry in hot oil (375) in a skillet until browned, turning once with tongs. Transfer to a colander to drain. Yields 6 servings.
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