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.
Frigid times and holiday crowds here in Tahoe call for this specimen from my collection that I am in awe I still have. Yep, when it was sent in 1993, I was a mere 11 years old.
FROM: Vail Village, Colorado
PHOTOGRAPHER: R.C. Bishop
SENDER: Laurel, who wrote of shaky handwriting induced by 32-degree weather and posed this question: “Did you know your real name is not Elisabeth?” No, I didn’t know that.
DATE: October 12, 1993
FROM: Beautiful Bum-Fuk Egypt
ARTIST: Blue Barnhouse of West Asheville, North Carolina (these guys make some great—and provocative—letterpress goods)
SENDER: Lynx (we’ve regularly traded postcards for years), who was traveling at the time and said “I currently have no address to be reached at other than general delivery, care of the front o’ the card.” awesome
DATE: November 7, 2008
* note: this postcard states in its stamp box that “you don’t need no stinking postage.” hehehe…
FROM: Braselton, Georgia — not sure of its original origin as no artist or company name is printed
SENDER: Daisy, who noted she found the card in my great-grandmother’s things
DATE: April 26, 1999
* note this postcard only cost $.20 cents to send back then!
PLACE: Glendhu Bay Motor Camp, Wanaka, New Zealand
SENDER: Lance, who was living in Wanaka at the time for an endless winter (you can see his handiwork on the card indicating where his trailer was, and where he snowboarded, at Treble Cone)
DATE: July 27, 2004
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