Lights in darkness

 "The Red Church", Minsk, Belarus

One of the themes that I collect is night views. Things look different in the night. I love lights in the middle of darkness, so this is perfect theme to collect. Here you can see some of my recently arrived night view postcards.

Las Vegas, USA

Statue of Catherine II, Russia

Big Ben, London, England

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II in her Coronation robes. The year was 1953 and she was only 27 years old.

 This postcard was official Postcrossing postcard GB-185475, sent from England.

Paleontological postcard

Archeology is quite particular theme to collect. I notice that it's not clear to everyone what archeology is. I've received for example a paleontological postcard under the name of archeology. But who cares, it's interesting as well!

This postcard was sent to me from Australia. In the picture there's a skull of the largest known marsupial that roamed in Australia. I wonder how large it was? It may have become extinct as recently as 20,000 years ago. The skull was found in Tambar Springs, near Coonabarabran, N.S.W., Australia.

Choosing postcards to others

I love choosing postcards to people who tell what they like to receive. It's the best part of the exchange, really.

Here you can see one of my sent postcards in another postcard blog.

Old traditional clothings

I received a couple of traditional clothing postcards. One of them was written and sent from Greenland to California, USA, in 1963. Others were unwritten.

Greenlandic woman in ceremonial costume

Quite thought-awakening was the postcard with a year 1880 photo of a North African woman wearing her costume.

Crown Princess Wedding

Finally, finally I have them!

The wedding postcards of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden. Their fairytale wedding was celebrated on 19th of June, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. One of the best memories of this year even though I just watched it from TV.

Wulingyuan quartzite sandstone pillars

Wulingyuan is a scenic and historic district situated in Hunan province in China. It's famous for its tall quartzite sandstone pillars, some over 800 meters in height. It's also an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amazing postcard to my pure nature collection.

All the postcards in my pure nature collection are so far from Asia, which is actually widening my view about Asia. Asia isn't all crowded continent after all. There's also places where human being is not.

This was official Postcrossing postcard CN-280083.