Good day, everyone!
With a sad note, I'd like to share the bunch of postcards that came in today. I was initially happy with the postcards and decided to rest for a few hours upon looking at each one content and happy, looking at the postage stamps and postmarks and all.
I guess it's a different kind of sad, other than being sad to receive postcards postmarked recieved on the front by my post office, which happened last week. Those were my favorite postcards that came in. Sad to say for some collectors, these postcards will be no more than for me to keep and not as a collection postcard. :(
Today, after waking up from a short nap, I went to our living room or should I say sala only to find out my bunch of postards have changed - facial expressions of betrayal and sad doomed facial expressions of certain beautiful creations of God's and tested by time and badly weathered rock formation, horrendous, tired and dirty, is now in front of me.
I was ready to take a photo of each postcard to share here in my blog. Here they are:
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Maxi card from Minsk, Belarus
(my very 1st ever Maxicard)
{saddened that the cancellation on the Maxicard turned from finely carved stamped postmark into a cartoon SBDO-like stamped cancellation mark. And the cancellation mark has moved farther away from the postage stamp. . . showing the real, the cancel and the stamp. (sigh)}
{saddened that the cancellation on the Maxicard turned from finely carved stamped postmark into a cartoon SBDO-like stamped cancellation mark. And the cancellation mark has moved farther away from the postage stamp. . . showing the real, the cancel and the stamp. (sigh)}
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UNESCO postcard from Bern, Switzerland
(surprised the insignia changed for Bern and the view also changed and the color of thatched houses or is it buildings)
I was happy with the first insignia that I saw . . .
Much better looking place except I prefer the old insignia I saw when I received the card.
Much better looking place except I prefer the old insignia I saw when I received the card.
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UNESCO card from Germany
(surprised the happy and smiling facial expression of the white seal changed to a worried or lonely reminiscent facial expression - a sea otter for me; 2 views on the multi-view UNESCO card changed also)
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postcard from Russia
(saddened and horrified that the facial expression of the child changed from happy, smiling young one climbing down the staircase to a horrified and aghast expression of a chile sitting on a chair)
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an Andy Warhol's Elvis Presly postcard from Canada
(worried that Elvis stance changed from a smiling Elvis into a hand gun carrying Elvis . . . just like James Bond 007 days. The card also turned from a for-tych transcendary into a 2 border pane Elvis Presley card. I prefer how I received the card as a 4 gradient pane with a smiling Elvis Presley done and pianted by Andy Warhol.)
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a self-published postcard thru zazzle by Graphics by Metarla from United Kingdom
{smiled at the change of rock formation from black to red but saddened that the black-looking Rock of Gilbraltar changed to an Angkor Wat-Khmer Empire colored textured-tested by time Rock formation. I bought 2 rock magnets from Siem Reap, Cambodia in year 2006 - one in natural lime or regular Angkor Stone color and one in rock red. My former friend, MBA classmate turned-suitor at my hour of need - the last one, asked from me the red stone rock, the red rock magnet I have, for his birthday. I gave it up for him whistfully. It's something that I would really keep for my own. At least, I have this postcard to remind me of Siem Reap's Angkor Wat from the Khmer Empire's time.} sigh . . .
Sad but hoping for brighter days ahead!
Wonderful set of postcards too but wishing for the first that I saw and held.
yours truly,
Kath B. Hernandez
{your Lady Katutz}
MEMBER & Budding MAXIMAPHILIST
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