Still life

Postcard ID: CN-1332251
Country: China

Here is one more piece of art in my blog. As I don't know Chinese (except some primitive hieroglyphs), I don't understand anything on this postcard. 

However the sender really surprised me. Firstly, he studied in Minsk, but not in the same university like me :)

Secondary, he added to a postcard some checks, souvenir banknotes and other different papers with  hieroglyphs (I have no idea what is that :)). 

As usual here are Chinese stamps (it seems that Chinese post issues more stamps for postcrosser that other countries:)):

A butterfly on a flower

Postcard ID: DE-3297571
Country: Germany

Here is an amazing colourful butterfly that flew to me from Germany. It was sent to me by Tanya that have lived in Germany for last 19 year. So many people now change the country where they were born to new countries due to different reasons. Who knows where I'll live in future =)

Fly like a butterfly, from flower to flower.. )

Berlin Victory Column

Postcard ID: DE-2219421
Country: Germany

Many cities have own Victory column or Victory Arch. This one is located in Berlin.

The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners have given the statue the nickname Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy".

The Victory Column is a major tourist attraction in the city of Berlin.

Moomin, Finland

Postcard ID: FI-1775326
Country: Finland

I think I'll always happy to receive postcard with Moomin characters :)

All of my Moomin-postcards can be found by tag moomins. Maybe once I will make an exhibition of Moomin postcards in my room :) 

Also I see on this card an amazing Moomin stamp:

Bijou

Postcard ID: UA-640670
Country: Ukraine

This is absolutely summer time postcard. I like all these beads and bracelets. I'm a fan of bracelets, like to receive is as a gift and to buy in different countries as a souvenir. Bracelets are better than magnets! :)

I don't know why this card doesn't have any likes yet. If I saw this card at gallery of another person I'd like it to add it to favourites :)

Also this card contains beautiful unusual stamps:

Drinks and desserts

Postcard ID: CN-942837
Country: China

Today I show a type of postcards that were not present in these blog before. Here are Nouvelles Images postcards. I hadn't known about them before starting postcrossing activity. As usual, I saw these cards in postcrossing galleries of other peope and would like to have it in my own collection. Than I tried to find the name of these cards. And finally, I added this point to my preferences. And started waiting. Long-long waiting.. 

I was insanely happy when I received such card at the first time :)

Here a Chinese stamp:

Kiss you!

Postcard ID: RU-1733384
Country: Russia

I receive vintage&retro postcards quite rarely. Meanwhile I like postcards of these themes. A couple of weeks ago me and my husband look trough the family album with b&w photos. It was strange time, but now it's so interesting to have a chance to see at least photos from that time. When I was a child and my parents were yang... People (men and women) have nice hairstyles, children had the same clothes :))

As we say now, grass was greener in childhood :)

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. 

Cute kitten

Postcard ID: DE-3284026
Country: Germany

Oh... my scanner again made a postcard worse that it is. However everyone could still see that kitten on the postcard is really cute (as all animal's children). Would like to have our own cat and post its photo to Instagram, huh :)

Here is a stamp from the card:

Wisconsin, USA

Postcard ID: US-2830678
Country: USA

Hurray! Here is one more US map to my collection. From this card I know that:

State bird is Robin

State flower is Violet

The Capital is Madison (Here is in Minsk we have a casino with such name :)).

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state comprises 72 counties.

Wisconsin is known as "America's Dairyland" because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for cheese. Manufacturing and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.

By the way I created a list of United States where all US states maps, that I have, marked with the link to the posts in this blog.

Seattle, USA

Postcard ID: US-2831647
Country: USA

Today I've known more information about USA city - Seattle. Of course, I've heard about this city earlier. For example, I saw the film "Sleepless in Seattle". Great film, btw. When I've received this enigmatic postcard, I read about this city more carefully.

Seattle is a coastal seaport city and the seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. With an estimated 652,405 residents as of 2013, Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the fastest-growing major city in the United States.

The Seattle area had been inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to its current site and named "Seattle" in 1853, after Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.

The city developed as a technology center in the 1980s, with companies like Amazon.com, Microsoft and T-Mobile US based in the area. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000. Since then, Seattle has become a hub for green industry and a model for sustainable development.

Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, there were nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs along Jackson Street from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District. The jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock legend Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock style grunge.

Also this card brought to me a new USA Global stamp:

Nature around us

Postcard ID: NL-2526384
Country: Netherlands

This set is looks like union of sets "Flora of Belarus" and "Owls of Belarus". It's a joke, huh :)

This card shows how wonderful and colourful world around us. Birds, butterfly, bee - they are so small, but looks so wonderful. It's a real miracle of nature. Why don't people fly?

Here some Netherlands stamps:

Delicious bread

Postcard ID: CN-1306118
Country: China

Here is in Belarus we says "Potatoes are the second bread". Bread we also like :)

Once I saw these postcard in my mailbox (I went from the office where I work and was hungry) I wanted to make a really big sandwich.. and bake cakes and so on... :)

However it's the evening, will return to baking in the morning :)

As usual, here are some great Chinese stamps:

New day begun by Sasha Salmina

Postcard ID: RU-2803101
Country: Russia

Here is one more card painted by Sasha Salmina. So nice, so beautiful :)

Other cards of this artist that I received can be found by tag Sasha Salmina :)

On the back side I see quote of Tove Jansson, but in Russian. I'm sorry, however I've not found the exact quote in English, so here is just my translation:

New day has begun, when anything can happen if you do not have anything against it.