Red Lacewing


Red Lacewing
Originally uploaded by MagicTyger

Steve Coleman took this photo. The original is here:

flickr.com/photos/feenixfoto/2860177518/

He very kindly let me make a postcard out of it, linking it to a pretty stamp that Australia Post recently released. Steve is an excellent photographer.

It’s a joy to send out a postcard as beautiful as this.

Thanks so much, Steve.

(Steve’s photostream: feenixfotography – flickr.com/photos/feenixfoto/ )

“Neva. The Granite Sculptures. Shih Tze”

RU-26830(Stamps)
A Postcrossing postcard from Natalye in Moscow.

She works in a library and writes that the sculpture is based on what Alexander Pushkin wrote in the poem “The Bronze Horseman”:

“…the Neva now is clad in granite with many a bridge to overspan it;
The islands lie beneath a screen
Of gardens deep in dusky green.”

The stamps look amazing too.

What a wonderful world we live in.

Thanks Natalye!