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Isafjordur fjord and town in North Iceland proudly count with an airport for those who prefer fast transfers between the different regions of the island. We simply drove by in our snailmail motorhome and I confess I felt a huge comfort in the realisation that I did NOT have to land or take off from this tiny airstrip :p
lover's letters * full of memories * love * passion * tenderness * longing
These are old, handwritten letters, that are my precious keepsake.
Created for Smile on Saturday - "Full of Memories"
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
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Schnecken in unserem Garten, für Smile on Saturday ein völlig unbearbeitetes Foto.
Snails in our garden, a completely unedited photo for Smile on Saturday.
Smile on Saturday: ANIMALS SOOC
I still use this pen, precious to me as a memory of my dear father. And I love to write my letters with it and send them by snailmail in times of email and messenger services 😉
HMM to all participants 💙💙💙
When I first got married it was so exciting to go the mailbox to get my mail. In fact, I would enter contests, send for coupons, order magazines anything just to fill my mailbox. Nowadays other than junk mail, my mailbox doesn't thrill me like it once did. Most of my bills are sent electronically and there is hardly any correspondence sent through the mail. Trying to be more environmentally aware last year I opted to skip mailed holiday greetings. I do miss the days of picking out special stationery and hand- writing letters to family and friends.
Everything in our society feels so urgent, we don't seem to want to wait for anything anymore. Do you remember mailing away your film and how exciting it was to get your photos back in the mail? I wouldn't want to go back to that but I think we need to learn about waiting and being excited again. Anticipating something is almost better than getting it.
Thanks for In Explore And all the Favs!!!
All kinds of scraps from: incoming mail, MailArt and art work leftovers, food/candy/drink labels, sidewalk finds, transit passes, parking passes, art and movie entrance stubs, adhesive label and letter page selvages, used postage, washi and deco tapes, etc., etc., etc.... :D
Happy Spring letter which made my house filled with Spring air
春のおたより 1
from one of my dearest friend Paula
343/365
#93 in my 100 x challenge - Monochrome
Also for Sliders Sunday. HSS
I've had this idea knocking around in my head for a while and collected and washed some empty snail shells...no snails were harmed during the making of this photo.
ODC Our Daily Challenge:
1. Wars of the roses
2. Part of a Circle
3. Simplicity
New 365 project in 2021: 168
Take your time (ENLARGE this!) . . . I sure did . . . and can you even imagine the *time* (AND SURPRISE) my dear, sweet, talented flickr friend/artist extraordinaire, Danny Mansmith, spent putting this thank you package together for me . . . in gratitude for a hand sewn birthday card I had sent to him!
Note: No extra scrid of paper or cloth ever hits his waste basket!
He totally exemplifies the meaning of CREATIVE *repurposing* . . .
The first two print orders I filled, (with little thank you cards & complimentary gifts up in
the corners!) Very exciting stuff! I took this just before packaging the prints up & sending them off last week. Eek! One went to South Carolina - and the other all the way to the UK!
For Macro Mondays Connection theme.
The dying art of writing and sending real letters is one of the best forms of connection there is. This is a part of a vintage letter written to my great grandmother by her brother who stayed back in Orkney.
With added Flypaper textures.
Here's to a fabulous 2011 (please click the 2011 for a slideshow of the year).
It's been such fun.
Rock on 2012!
Thank you to everyone I have met up with during the year (you know who you are and I've tried to put you all in the slideshow). And for all your lovely comments, flickr and snailmail. But mainly for the inspiration!
And a very Happy New Year!
xox
Inside an amazing letter package, sailed beautiful ART from Portugal to the USA, clear across our shared Atlantic Ocean,
from shore to shore.
Each individual piece carried more love than one can imagine.
I feel soooo blessed to have an incredibly gifted friend who creates and gives from her heart in so many ways.
I'm also grateful for the special individuals whom I've met throughout this wonderful flickr venue. To me, there's nothing in the world so precious as heartfelt communication, even with people we've never met in person. Most people outside the flickr world do not understand how such friendships can develop through the images, words, photography and art we share.
"O salty sea, so much of whose salt
is Portugal's tears!
All the mothers who had to weep for us to cross you!
All the sons who prayed in vain!
All the brides-to-be who never
married for you to be ours, O sea!
Was it worth doing? everything's worth doing
if the soul of the doer isn't small.
Whoever would go beyond the Cape
must go beyond sorrow.
God placed danger and the abyss in the sea,
But he also made it heaven's mirror."
~ Portuguese Sea, by Fernando Pessoa ~
(another translation shared by Paula)
Toronto 4-4-0 Type - 32 cents 1983 - Canadian stamp
For this week´s macro challenge our task assigned was to take a macro of something related to a hobby. In days gone by it was stamps for me - but life got in the way - now to figure what to do with all those little pieces of paper.
About the stamp - Issue date was October 3, 1983 - Printer was Ashton-Potter Limited. For those that care the Scott number is #999
Description:
The mid-1980 marked the centennial of "The Last Spike" and the 150th anniversary of the first Canadian railway, the Canada Post Corporation produced a series of train stamps.
In the 1850's some Canadian railroads began building their own locomotives to meet North American conditions. Among these was the Toronto, the first locomotive manufactured in Canada West, built in Toronto in 1853.
The locomotive stamps were designed by Ernst Roch of Montreal. The format chosen, which presents the locomotives in profile against a plain background colour, are ideal for presenting the mechanical complexity that makes locomotives so visually interesting. The principal challenge of designing these stamps was to simplify the engines to make a sufficiently strong graphic statement at stamp size without sacrificing significant detail.
Text taken from the release by Canada Post Corporation - Postage Stamp Press Release, 1983.
Happy Macro Monday to all ...
How often do we make a lifelong friend on flickr
who chooses to scoot over to instagram,
but remains in touch,
by snail mail, none-the-less!
"Challenging the postal system is our game . . .
where a name is just the same . . .
as an excuse, so lame . . .
yet with no need to tame . . .
or no one to blame . . .
and no call to fame . . .
Oh, "Danny Boy" . . . you're the best!
you just made my day
in your amazingly creative way . . .
stay tuned for the rest . . . "
. . . and so the envelope addressing begins . . .
Love this season when our snail mail travels all around the world! We love sharing our appreciation to all who have helped us in the past year, navigating all the changes in the world! Nico is a young, soon-to-be father who patiently walked (drove) us through all the new technology on our recently purchased *used* Subaru (but new enough to have all the buttons and whistles) . . .
It's a whole new world, and we already miss our old clunker,
(sans computer screens) but its time had come.
Olympus Trip 35, Zuiko 40/2.8, orange filter, Cinestill BWXX 250@320, HC-110/dil. B, 6 min. Digitized with Nikon D700, AF Micro-Nikkor 60/2.8 D, ES-2. CS-LITE
a trade with thistletown land of adorie crafted bears in canada yeyyy! hope you enjoy the goodies i compiledd for yaaaaa yeyyy!!