I really need to spend some time dealing with the camera settings– for some reason the colors lately have been way, way off.  These aren’t really as… saturated? as they look in these photos.

My Valentines this year are a bit… avant garde?  I actually can’t really tell if I like them all that much.  On [...]

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“(89/365) One day this will be extinct” in Sarah G.’s Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
I came across this passage in Posting It and just had to share it with you all:
[Anthony Trollope's character, Jemima Stanbury], placed little confidence in [pillar post boxes]: ‘She had not the faintest belief that any letter put into one [...]

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After we got over the sting of not making it to NOLA for the Super Bowl, the blizzard was something else.  We’re lucky, our apartment building didn’t loose power or heat.  However, there are 25 inches of snow on the ground.  TWENTY FIVE INCHES!  That’s more snow than I’ve ever seen in my life.  Ever.

So [...]

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Jon and I are going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl this weekend Well, never mind.  Apparently the worst snow storm ever is coming to DC and ALL the flights to anywhere have been canceled for the entire weekend.  We’ll be watching the game in our apt.  Thankfully, we stocked up on snacks before [...]

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This was a semi-impulsive Ebay purchase… there was a “pop off” and I should’ve held back.  But did I?  No.
HOW COULD I LET THIS BEAUTY OUT OF MY GRASP?!
Ahem. I don’t know much about the Postal Service Station made by the American Adjustomatic Corp– clearly a precursor to today’s APC.  It seems to have been [...]

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I’m about half way through of Catherine Golden’s book Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing.  I saw Professor Golden speak a few weeks ago at the National Postal Museum and really enjoyed her lecture. I have to admit, I didn’t know that the postage stamp didn’t come around until 1840!  I did know [...]

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I’ve got a very dear friend leaving town this week– she’s been offered an excellent job out in California.  So, to send her on her way I put together a small package of stationary for her.  It is also a selfish way to say “send me mail” without saying “SEND ME MAIL.”  Yes, I do [...]

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