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Thursday Postcard Hunt – National Parks

“National Parks” is this week’s theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt.

Postcards from the USA

Blue N. 7 – Art by Rose Wong. 
Rose Wong is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Buzzfeed, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.
Glacier National Park is a 1,583-sq.-mi. wilderness area in Montana’s Rocky Mountains, with glacier-carved peaks and valleys running to the Canadian border.

Postcard from Taiwan

Taroko National Park is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park carved by the Liwu River.

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  2. The mountain goats look very happy! I always like the colours in these vintage posters ~violet

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  3. I like that scene in Taiwan. Postcrossing people often want those other type of cards. I have a few, not old, reprints.

    Lisa

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  4. A volcanic national park is so interesting. I like Rose Wong’s geyser. Love the colours in Glacier Park, and of course the goats and soaring birds.

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  5. Short story made long. Last century I began a poetry blog on Blogger. Before long I was following one other blog. The woman would find old postcards, drive to where the photo was taken, take an updated photo approximating to original, and then write a story of all that happened between the two pictures.

    I just found this interesting, and would catch up with her work whenever I posted a new poem. I knew her name and followed her work. That was that.

    Ten or so year later I found out my cousin’s daughter had move from New Orleans to Los Angeles, where I lived. I only knew this third hand through my cousin’s sister, who I was close to through Facebook and funerals.

    When I found out the daughter/niece was showing work at a nearby gallery, I dropped in, surprise her, and introduced myself. We were complete strangers until then, but became close enough to follow from a distance on Facebook, from where she invited to her wedding three three years later.

    The wedding was a free wheeling outdoor baroque hippy sort of thing. Tons of fun! After vows were exchanged I was introduced to The Mother of the Bride, who turned out to be the mysterious postcard woman from all those years before,

    I hope you enjoy this true to life tale.

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