Grenoble

It's a card from Christian. A great one! I like this kind of views, when you can see the big area. Ah, my favourite France... :)

Germany

It's a very interesting card from Tanja. I'm looking at this card and can't get is it winter, autumn or spring? Anyway, it looks very nice. Thanks, Tanja!

Pennsylvania

Card from Alex, with Allegheny National Forest. So green! I just thought I'd like to go to the forest now, to touch the treees and get their energy, to breathe fresh air...

New Zealand

Card from Lee. I receive cards from NZ not often (really not often:)), so it was nice to get this one. Very green. Green is one of my favourite colours.
And - funny - I'm looking at this card and thinking about spring... Just 3 days till spring!

Norge

This cards is from Gro. Very nordic, I'd say. And with good colours, nice to look on this card. I like it.

Cherry blossom

Absolutely magnificent card from "paper" (don't know the real name, sorry). All these cards with cherry blossom look so great! Just stunning...

Pinnacles national monument

A card from Jean Claude. It's Pinnacles national monument, rock formation carved by 22 million years of erosion have been moved 195 miles by the San Andreas Eault.

Turkey

And this is a card from Pinar. Pictures in the upper corners (Pamukkale and Urgup) are UNESCO objects. Thanks, Pinar!

Chinese nature

This card came for me from Luo (thanks!). Very nice one, I like cards with nature (I've told it).

Croatia

Thank you very much, Agata, for this awesome card! It was pleasure to swap with you:) It's really amazing, I like the coloring of this card. And I like nature shots like this.

Snow card from China

This is a card from Yao. Magnificent! It's Precious Stone Hill after snow. It looks great! I'm amazed!

Sky and water

Awesome card from Steffi! I like this kind of cards - with nature views. It looks so nice, so peaceful...

Texas

This beautiful postcard with spring flowers came from Shelby. Very nice! I miss spring. You know, summer is not "my" season. I do not like hot weather, I do not like when air is standing, when the one thing you really want is go to the shower and spend there all day long. Or sit under the conditioner and don't stand up:)
Well, yes, fruits, berries, ice-cream - these are good things, but... No, I don't like summer. I prefer spring. Spring (all 3 months), autumn (basically October, whith yellow and red foliage) and winter (till New Year's holidays:)).

Lion Forest Garden

This card shows Lion Fores Garden in China, a very famous place. Card from Yuejiao.

Compactly yet harmoniously spaced, the Lion Forest Garden has a prominent part for series of man-made mountains with various buildings around the lake, and an artificial waterfall and cliffs at the edge of the lake on the west. Remains of the 14th century man-made mountains, covering 1,152 sq.m. and being the largest of all at Suzhou, can be still seen today. Noted for its labyrinthine mountains with winding pathways and caverns, old pines and cypress trees, awesome peaks and jogged rocks of grotesque shapes resembling dancing lions with striking and unusual poses, it possesses with pride the true delights of mountain and forest scenery in limited space with a flavor of Zen Buddhism.
The Hall of Peace and Happiness, one of the principal buildings in the garden, is a masterpiece of typical Mandarin ducks' hall at Suzhou. Divided in halves, the northern half of the hall differs from the southern half in many particular aspects, such as beam-framing systems, furnishings, pavements, carvings, window designs and so forth. With painted patterns and beam carvings and looking splendid in green and gold, the True Delight Pavilion in the royal style with the "True Delight" tablet inscribed by the Qing Emperor Qianlong is a main viewing place in the garden and differs from the other plain and elegant gardens of Suzhou. Other buildings include the Pointing at Cypress Trees Hall, the Asking Prunus Mume Pavilion and the Stone Boat, etc.
The Lion Forest Garden boasts 22 buildings of varied types, 25 tablets and plateaux, 71 steles inscribed with the famous Calligraphy Collection of the Listening to Rain Tower, 23 brick carvings, 5 carved wooden screens, and 13 valuable old trees such as ginkgo biloba L., pinus bungeana Zucc, etc., which fall into 5 catalogues.
A group of Zen Buddhist disciples of the famous Abbot Tianru had it built in the 2nd year of the reign of Zhizheng (A.D. 1342) under the Yuan Dynasty. It was then called "the Budhi Orthodox Monastery". Because there was s forest of bamboo, grotesque rocks resembling lions in the garden, and indirect reference to a Buddhist story of the Lion, it was renamed the Lion Forest Garden. Soon after its birth, the garden became a popular place for scholars at Suzhou, who came here to write poems and paint pictures. The well-known Yuan artist Ni Yunlin painted a scroll of the Lion Forest Garden. In the reign of Kangxi (the 17th century), the garden was separated from the temple. The Qing Emperor Qianlong (Hongli) visited it several times. The garden had changed hands a number of times. In 1918 it was purchased and repaired by Pei (now spelled "Bei" in China), an industrialist, becoming the garden one visits today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Peis donated it to the State. Since 1954, the Lion Forest Garden has been open to the public.

About tarsiers

Another interesting card from Asia. It's from Sherwin, from Philippines.

Do you know what's the animal in the middle of the card? Because you can see him very often - people like to make funny photos and videos with this animal. It's tarsier.

Tarsiers are small animals with enormous eyes; each eyeball is approximately 16 mm in diameter and is as large as their entire brain (!). Tarsiers also have very long hind limbs. In fact, their feet have extremely elongated tarsus bones, from which the animals get their name. The head and body range from 10 to 15 cm in length, but the hind limbs are about twice this long (including the feet), and they also have a slender tail from 20 to 25 cm long. Their fingers are also elongated, with the third finger being about the same length as the upper arm. Most of the digits have nails, but the second and third toes of the hind feet bear claws instead, which are used for grooming. Tarsiers have very soft, velvety fur, which is generally buff, beige, or ochre in color.

O Canada! Again.

This nice card - from Tonia. I have seen this card before (don't remember where; maybe, on postcrossing.com?) and wanted this card for my collection. And here we go - I have it:)
I've already told that I'm crazy sport fan, so when I say "Canada" I mean "Vancouver Olympics-2010" (it will be special event for me). Here is an official web-site of Olympic Games-2010. Visit it - maybe you'll find something interesting for you and decide to follow Olympic competitions with me:)
249 to beginning.

Tulips!

And, at least, great card from Netherlands! It's a card from Regina. Thanks a lot!
Great view, I think. So good colours, so bright! And tulips... My favourite flowers:) I wish I visit this place one day:)

My 100th official postcard:)

Yappi!! Yesterday I received my 100th official postcard (of caurse, I have much more postcards, but this is my 100th official, via postcrossing.com. It is from user "Around" and the card shows hte town named Savonlinna, and the castle named Olavinlinna (built in 1562). So nice names:)) Here is a link with some photos of this castle.
And I also wanna show you my first card. I've never been abroad (sadly, but true), and this is the first card I've ever received from other country. The card is from Mirkku (Finland, of caurse:)) Unfortunately, I don't know what the monument is this.
This card is the first, so very important for me.

Norvegian postcards set

These cards are from... Sorry, don't know how to say it right... But it is written "Per Erik Lantz". So it's probably from men:)))
Very nice. To be honest, I like cards from Western Europe the most. It would be nice to receive cards from Sweden and Denmark (I still have no), and from Austria. And more from Switzerland. And yes, from Luxembourg... And... And I'n waiting for European cards:))
Do you know what is "fjord"? It's "a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity". You can see it on a first card. Impressive. And here is a lot of beautiful Norvegian photos. Do you know that Norway is the best country to live in? I heard it on TV. So let's pack our bags and go to Norvay! :)

With love to our planet

Happy Earth Day everyone! Hope you love our planet and care about it!

Today I'll show you a beautiful landscape. I've got this card from France. Thank you, Thibaut! You are great friend! :)



Here is a link to National Georgaphic site. Every day you can see a new "Photo of the day" there. And many-many-many other photos. Just see and realize how beautiful is place where we live.