Monday, September 26, 2011

This Image Was In My Dreams Last Night...

Have you ever had something so vivid in a dream that it seemed real? I'm not sure what triggered this image in my head during sleep, but it was there...

The postcard, from blogger tut tut tut, is entitled The Tightrope Wedding and was made and published in France. It is not only visually  interesting, but rife with symbolism as well, I think.

Tut tut writes, "Postcards are hard to find these days, aren't they?"

She may be right, especially when it comes to images as intriguing as what is depicted here.

Happy Monday...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Elephants At Sunset...

Karen, who blogs at Bordertown Notes, sent me this wonderful postcard of elephants at sunset. Karen lives in Botswana and sees all sorts of beautiful animals, birds and plant life. Though I meant to post this long ago, doing so now has enabled me to try out the scanning function on the new printer.

Elephants are a favourite of mine. My fascination started with Babar and has never abated. According to the back of the card, a healthy elephant can produce ten calves in her lifetime and can give birth every four years if conditions are good.  Karen writes, "We see herds of elephants almost every day, crossing the roads en route either to or from the river. Watching them is a wonderful distraction from our chaotic world."

 I could not agree more. Additionally, though I have become accustomed to the immediacy of e-mail, there is something special about receiving postcards and letters as well as sending them that the modern world seems on the verge of loosing...

Unti Next Time...