“Sudden Storm” in Tochis’ Flickr stream.  Licensed via the Creative Commons.

Startled by Summer
Wind Lin
The klaxon warns of the first typhoon,
and I think
how last night’s booming
thunder was already too late for spring.
The fog outside the shutter
no longer hurries us into jackets
and we suddenly discover
it’s ok to go out in short sleeves.
However,
the one thing I can’t remember:
this [...]

[Read more →]

I know it’s not much to look at, really, but something about this postmark from Myrtle Beach, SC caught my eye.  It appeared in my home on the back of a Postcrossing card.  Something about it just spoke to me– it really is this red in person and I’ve never seen noticed that art-deco-esque bird [...]

[Read more →]

Yes, I won a prize from them but truly the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is my favorite thing in DC (after a few of my favorite watering holes).  Anyway, this weekend I plan to attend their “Pens and the Post” exhibit where you can:

Take a fancy fountain pen for a spin at the “Pen Petting [...]

[Read more →]

Oh my gosh, I am so flattered… I won (sort of).  Apparently folks actually voted for “Pushing the Envelope”– a name suggested by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Facebook admin.  So, I was entered into a random drawing for a stamp yearbook.  Hooooooooray!
I personally preferred “Back of the Envelope.”  I’m a little annoyed because “Pushing [...]

[Read more →]

Yep, last Thursday I got inked: a postage stamp with a mockingbird inside it. Much though I may hate to admit it at times, I’m a Texas girl.  Whenever we visit or even just fly through DFW my whole body relaxes a bit and I can just sense that I’m home.  I lived in TX [...]

[Read more →]

Tell Me a Story
Robert Penn Warren
[ A ]
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse.  I heard them.
I did not know what was happening in my heart.
It was the season before the [...]

[Read more →]

“Quiz: Do you know what this is referring to?
Hint: everyone of us has had one or more.”
in dbking’s Flickr Stream.  Licensed via the Creative Commons.
The Smithsonian National Postal Museum is having an informal contest to (re)name their blog.  I suggested “Back of the Envelope” and it’s in the top three!  You can help me win [...]

[Read more →]

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a magical mailbox crocheted for yours truly by Sarah– the lovely woman behind Bury Me With My Needles.  As I believe we have discussed, I do not knit or crochet.  I would very much like to do these things, but whenever I try the instructions might as well be written [...]

[Read more →]

The Netherlands
Just a few shots of stamps and postmarks that have come through my mailbox lately…  After seeing this Flickr set (via NotCot), I was inspired to go back and collect the stamps I’ve received into one spot.  Eventually I suppose I’ll need to start scanning the postage, our point-and-shoot digital camera has a hard [...]

[Read more →]

Some of my current Flickr favorites…  1. Untitled, 2. USPS Platter, 3. Building of the Inaugural Stands, 4. Mail Room, 5. Vintage Check Writer 1, 6. llibreria – bookstore – Amsterdam – HDR, 7. you’ve got mail! air mail!, 8. British Parcels Post-sorting parcels for foreign mail (LOC), 9. gaimail2, 10. These chairs, 11. Morning [...]

[Read more →]