Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea at Roja, Latvia - looking forward to seeing this coast by myself this summer!

postcrossing card sent by Marianna from Lavia

Postcrossing boats

Every now and then postcrossing surprises, even after years. Here are three cards that arrived on the same day - all about water and boats!

Maya Bay, Phi Phi Islands, Thailand

sent from Canada

lake in Tibet

Der Kanal

Einig

Der Glückliche ist mit sich und seiner Umgebung einig.

Oscar Wilde

postcrossing card showing a beach in Liepaja, sent by Estere, Latvia

Rocky Shore

This card was sent by Saara who lives in the Finnish woods. 
The postcard shows a photo by Lars Dahlström from Sweden who took more wonderful pictures of Swedish landscapes and people. You can see some of them on his website.

Ship in a Bottle

If all the ships I have at sea
Should come a-sailing home to me,
Ah, well! the harbor would not hold
So many ships as there would be
If all my ships came home from sea.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, My Ships, from Poems of Passion.

postcard sent by Megan, USA

Florida

Robin got me daydreaming with her card: 

"Wouldn't it be great 

to be sitting there 

reading a favorite book?" 

Oh, yes it would! 

First received cards

A lovely B&W postcard from Cherry in China. Her real name ist Zhangchen, but apparently they love to have a western name too.

Then there's a more typical tourist card with a lake and park pavillion on it, located in a town called Taichung in Taiwan. It was sent by Yi-Ga. The card is not very special but she wrote that if I liked open waters (like it says on my postcrossing profile) I was a person who liked freedom.
Probably true...

Pooh - and Piglet, Tigger and Roo, too!
Disney greetings from Slovakia by Patricia who has her own blog - in Slovakian!

Wave succeeding wave

And see the rivers how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,—
Wave succeeding wave, they go
A various journey to the deep,
Like human life to endless sleep!

John Dyer (1699-1757, Welsh poet) , Grongar Hill.

Krtek postcard sent by Lucy, Czech Republic

Against the current

postcard showing Gdynia, Poland, in 1930, sent by Agnieszka

So we beat on, 

boats against the current, 

borne back ceaselessly 

into the past. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Türkis

postcard sent by Youfu

Das Mondlicht fangen

Obwohl im Meer keine Fische mehr leben,
fährt der Fischer bei Vollmond hinaus.
Ich darf ihn manchmal begleiten.
Früher war er Kapitän bei der Marine,
"vier Sterne auf jeder Schulter,
wenn du weißt, was das heißt".
Er kennt jede Welle zwischen Afrika
und hier, jede Schaumkrone, jeden Seestern.
Wir fahren an die Stelle, wo wir
am besten das Mondlicht fangen können
mit unserem Käscher. Einen Eimer voll,
das langt, gegen sieben sind wir dann
wieder zurück mit unserer Beute
und können erzählen.

 Quint Buchholz/Michael Krüger, Keiner weiß es besser als der Mond. Hanser, München 2001.

Der Himmel dichtet

Manche Dichter sitzen am Schreibtisch
und suchen Reime für die Nacht,
finden sie einen, ist es vollbracht.
Wir fahren nachts im Boot über den See
und lassen den Himmel dichten. 

Quint Buchholz/Michael Krüger, Keiner weiß es besser als der Mond. Hanser, München 2001.

Baltic Sea

Dreaming of my own piece of Baltic Sea next weeks to come.

postcard by Regina from Lithuania

Malaysian Dream

Fleecy cirrus clouds against a cobalt sky
overlooking the sapphire waters of Perhentian Island
which is 20km off the coast of Terengganu State.

Take off

A waterlogged cormorant 

trying to take off 

and appearing 

to be walking 

on the water.

postcard sent by Karen, France

Longing for Canada

Every now and then there's a reminder via postcrossing why I should definetely travel to Canada again one day: Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canadian Rockies

from Donna, Barrie, Canada

Blue Couch in Purple Seascape

Aernout Overbeeke: Blue Couch in Purple Seascape (1992)

The postcard is from Anne-Lies (Netherlands), the picture won a photography award of the Netherlands.

Visit Amsterdam?

Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Amsterdam, Netherlands

postcrossing card sent by Melody

Postcrossing Cancellation Mark Taiwan

I received this ocean view card, area of Jiufen, Taipei, Taiwan. It was sent by Shui, a very active postcrosser. They held a postcrossing meeting in the city of Taichung in May this year. They used a specia l cancellation mark (see article on the postcrossing blog) for their cards and I'm happy having received a card showing that cancellation mark (only three weeks later, snail mail takes time...), here is the card's other side:

Shui has a very neat handwriting, it almost looks printed.
Notice the cute drawing and the beautiful stamps!

Postcrossing at its best!