This and That: A Blog

 

 This week for Thu rsday Postcard Hunt  we travel to Northern European Cities.  Copenhagen, Demark as seen from Our Saviour's Church, postmark 1970. London, England Oslo, Norway Karl Johans Gate, a famous street running from Oslo Central Station to the Royal Palace. The postcard image is pre-WWI, but it wasn't printed until after 1925, when the city's name Kristiania was changed to Oslo. Next week's Hunt, the last in February, will be Cities in North America. 

  " Welcome to The Numbers Game #112 . Today’s number is 234.To play along, go to your photos file folder and type the number  233 into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my  Numbers Game  blog of the day." I visit a lot more blogs than my comments seem to suggest.  If you use Wordpress I may be unable to leave a comment.  I used to have an account, and now some Wordpress blogs are set to make me sign in, and even though I no longer have an account Wordpress remembers my email and won't let me continue.  Sorry.  I had that happen with three blogs already today.  

 St. Vincent de Paul had some small boxes of ephemera a few weeks ago.  I love looking through those!   I found quite a few postal cards. Postal cards are government issue postcards with a printed stamp.  The first official postal card was issued by the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Oct. 1, 1869.  A year later Germany issued their first. Germany then quickly became known for publishing postcards, especially in the Golden Age  of postcard production, 1890s-1914.  A few months later the UK joined in, followed by many other countries.  The U.S. was late to the game, the first postal card being published in 1873. Region: Bavaria, Germany Freistaat Bayern (Free State of Bavaria) postal card issued c. 1919, shortly after Bavaria declared itself a Free State within the Weimar Republic.  It is overprinted after the fall of the Bavarian Socialist Republic.   Saargebiet (Saar Basin) The Saar Basin was administrated by the League of Nations ...

 So, it's Presidents' Day.  When I was in elementary school we had days off for Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, whether they fell on a Monday or not.  February 12 for Washington, and February 22 for Lincoln, although Washington was born February 11, 1731 under the old Julian calendar.  In 1752 Britain and the colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar and his birthday was "moved" to the 12th.  The Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect in 1971, changing some, but not all, federal holidays to Mondays.  Lincoln's birthday was never a federal holiday, but was a state holiday in about a dozen states, including mine at the time, California.  It still is a state holiday in a few.  Some states treated it as a school holiday, but not an official state one.  Getting on to the garden, here is what was going on yesterday. Autumn crocus, not actually a crocus, grows its leaves in late winter/spring, they dry up completely before the blooms emerge ...

 It's C this week for Sunday Stamps .  My C s are Animals. C hameleon Ghana 1965 C himpanzee Liberia 1976 C hamois Romania 1976   Next up for next week is D .

  unsigned painting in my collection