Denali National Park, USA

Postcard ID: US-3175169
Country: USA

Here is so beautiful landscape and so great mountains! And so small people :)

Denali National Park and Preserve is a national park and preserve located in Interior Alaska, centered on Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America. Denali's landscape is a mix of forest at the lowest elevations, including deciduous taiga. The preserve is also home to tundra at middle elevations, and glaciers, rock, and snow at the highest elevations. The longest glacier is the Kahiltna Glacier. Today, 400,000 people visit the park annually. They view wildlife, climb mountains, and backpack. Wintertime activities includes dog-sledding, cross-country skiing, and snowmachining.

Here is a quote from the backside:

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

(c) Anais Nin

Sacandaga River, USA

Postcard ID: US-2954288
Country: USA

The Sacandaga River is a 64-mile-long (103 km) river in the northern part of New York in the United States. Its name comes from the Native American Sa-chen-da'-ga, meaning "overflowed lands".

The Sacandaga River is a tributary of the Hudson River, flowing into it across from Lake Luzerne, at the border of Saratoga County and Warren County.

Bridestowe lavender estate, Nabowla, Tasmania

Postcard ID: AU-372448
Country: Australia

This card is just amazing! Now I want to visit this place and see this beauty with my own eyes! I think that now I have one more association with Australia :)

Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 39 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, southern Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia is often referred to as lavender, and there is a colour named for the shade of the flowers of this species.

Also the backside contains cool stamp with royal family:

Baikal, Russia

Postcard ID: RU-2810574
Country: Russia

Here is amazing Baikal Lake. I really like Russian or Belarusian landscapes and believe that we have really beautiful nature. On the left site we see a pole with ribbons. it's a place of strengths, ribbons are to make spirits kinder.

Lake Baikal is a rift lake in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between the Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.

Lake Baikal is the freshwater lake with greatest volume in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water, and at 1,642 m (5,387 ft), the deepest. It is also among the clearest of all lakes, and thought to be the world's oldest lake at 25 million years. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.

Baikal is home to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two-thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. 

Ganyang Gully of Baoxing County at the foot of the Jiajin Mountain in autumn

Postcard ID: CN-1039526
Country: China

Here is a colourful postcard with beautiful landscape. Awesome!

Baoxing County is the place where Frenchman A. David found the giant panda. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, home to more than 30% of the world's pandas which are classed as highly endangered, covers 924,500 ha with seven nature reserves and nine scenic parks in the Qionglai and Jiajin Mountains. The sanctuaries constitute the largest remaining contiguous habitat of the giant panda, a relict from the paleo-tropic forests of the Tertiary Era. It is also the species' most important site for captive breeding. The sanctuaries are home to other globally endangered animals such as the red panda, the snow leopard and clouded leopard. They are among the botanically richest sites of any region in the world outside the tropical rainforests, with between 5,000 and 6,000 species of flora in over 1,000 genera.

A stamp from China:

Water, Light and Clouds

Postcard ID: DE-2944430
Country: Germany

This is so romantic card... Actually, I haven't met a sunrise or sunset at water. I think I should correct it this year!

Cards like this one don't require a description. Just see it and enjoy :)

Here are some beautiful flower stamps:

Astrakhan, Russia. An evening melody

Postcard ID: RU-2434431
Country: Russia

This one more mystique card came to me this week. I like winter and like so calm evenings. Especially I like falling snow in the lamplight, however it's not about this card :)

I have never been in Astrakhan yet, but postcrossin can show me a little part if this city :)

Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on two banks of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of 28 meters (92 ft) below sea level. 

Also Astrakhan is sister city of belarusian Brest city :)

A postal stamp is also really interesting:

Tahir Salahov is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. Nowadays he lives in Moscow, where he is a professor and has a studio at the Moscow Art Institute. He has received numerous honors, including People's Artist of USSR, Russia and Azerbaijan, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize (1968), First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1973–1992), Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, Austria, etc.

Niagara Falls

Postcard ID: CA-403122
Country: Canada

This card is one from my favourites coming to me this January. I think that this view as absolutely amazing and incredible. Sometimes I revert this card head over heels and imagine that this is polar lights :)

As wrote on the backside "the Falls and landscape are awash in light every night of the year".

Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. 

Niagara Falls were formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean. While not exceptionally high, the Niagara Falls are very wide.

I would like to see this beauty with my own eyes :)

Also this card has nice stickers...:

...and nice Christmas stamp:

Storm at Creac'h Point

Postcard ID: FR-331264
Country: France

Here is in Belarus we don't have access to the sea. So we don't see it at the storm or calm. However postcrossing helps to know more about things which I don't see during my everyday life.

I think this is very beautiful card. And I would like to meet with a lighthouse keeper :)

Here is the French stamp:

A temple on a mountain

Postcard ID: JP-435864
Country: Japan

This card shows a temple on a mountain in Yamagata. There are about one thousand seventy stairs. It's a very hard to reach a top.
And this is a really amazing place.

Here are Japanese stamps: