Red cat by Inga Paltser

Postcard ID: RU-2932248
Country: Russia

Before receiving this card I known only about owls painted by Inga Paltser. But now I know that she also can draw wonderful cats with enigmatic eye ;)

This postcard is really beautiful and kind. I'd like to have more postcards from this series!

Life is better with friends

Postcard ID: NL-2619085
Country: Netherlands

Wow! I received the same postcard as 25 million registered postcard on postcrossing site! So great event :)

I love all cats, but especially I like black, red and tri-color cats. One of them is on this card :)

Life is better with friends, life is better with love! ;)

Here is a Dutch stamp:

Little My from Moomin Valley

Postcard ID: FI-2180519
Country: Finland

Little My is my absolutely favourite in Moomin valley! 

Little My is a character in the Moomin series of books by Tove Jansson. The character first appeared in the fourth book, The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950). She is a small, determined and fiercely independent Mymble. Little My is brash, aggressive, mischievous and disrespectful, but can also be a good friend when she wants to. She is the Mymble's daughter's younger sister. She was eventually adopted by the Moomin family.

The name Little My originated from the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet: μ (Mu) – transliterated as my and pronounced [my] in Swedish and Finnish. In the metric system, lowercase mu μ, meaning "one-millionth", represents the prefix "micro-", from the Greek μικρός (mikrós), meaning "small".

Here is a stamp with great Tove Jansson on the backside:

Old postcard with bears (20 years)

Postcard ID: NL-2618943
Country: Netherlands

The sender wrote that this card is a gift of her father. He presented it when she was 10 years old! So now this card is 20 years old. Wow!

I also have different bears in my childhood. Unfortunately, don't have postcard from that time :( I think that such cards are special as they keep specific atmosphere of a period of time.

Here is a stamp:

Place de la Concorde by Stephane Rey-Gorrez

Postcard ID: FR-420118
Country: France

The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 8.64 hectares (21.3 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.

To the west of the Place is the famous Champs-Élysées.

Stéphane Rey-Gorrez: Photographer - Graphist - Photo Retoucheur
Born in 1973 in Bourg Saint Maurice - France, Stéphane Rey-Gorrez has a passion for pictures and new digital technologies.He started his carrer as an independant graphist and a photo retoucher by working for a lot of advertising agencies. Concurrently, he follows his own route and gets interested in various possibilities resulting from a mixture between photography and illustration.

Approaching a picture as an illustration or a painting in a fantasy universe, his personal touch fed on imaginary and fantastic visions confers to his photos a surrealist atmosphere and a timelessness sensation.The mixture of colours, contrasts and textures gives to his works a special connotation with dream-like accents. Stéphane Rey-Gorrez makes us discover a surprising picture of towns. Monuments, streets and gardens are emptied of all human presence. Towns take a strange, unreal, sometimes dark appearance by showing themselves in all their loneliness.

Here is a French stamp:

Advertising of one of Germany's most popular radio station

Postcard ID: DE-2213762
Country: Germany

Radio ffn is a radio station in the German state of Lower Saxony. This station has the second largest place after the «NDR 1 Niedersachsen» (28,9%)  in Lower Saxony with a share of 16.5% in the radio market . Radio ffn distributes its program from a studio in Hannover via cable and via VHF throughout Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg (Cable in Hamburg 99.35 MHz). Since 2005 ffn can listen to Berlin.

Here is a German Europe stamp:

Snusmumriken from Moomins friends

Postcard ID: FI-1770705
Country: Finland

Here is a wonderful shaped postcard from Moomin world! I already wrote a post about Snusmumriken, so won't duplicate it here. But I'm absolutely in love with this card :)

All of my Moomin-postcards can be found by tag moomins.

Also this card has a stamp like mini copy of the card! Such great!

Wejherowo, Poland

Postcard ID: PL-935207
Country: Poland

To be honest I haven't heard about this sity before. In spite of the fact this town is located in neighbor country. This postcard sent to me by 5 years old gerl and she opens the world for me :)

Wejherowo is a town in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 47,435 inhabitants (2007). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a town in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).

By the way, Bilarusian town Postawy is a sister city ;)

Here are a new Polish stamps (usually I receive kozerojek from this country):

Novy Hradek, Czech Republic

Postcard ID: CZ-294210
Country: Czech Republic

This postcard shows Czech city Nový Hrádek. As per Wikipedia it's a market town and municipality in Náchod District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

As for objects from the card, here we see:

• Catholic Church of St. Petr and Pavel
• Square - Marian Column
• Sibenik - wind power
• Castle street - timbered house
• Frymburk - ruins of the castly

Here is a Czech stamp:

Coffee and hot chocolate by Yuliya Khegay

Postcard ID: RU-1755317
Country: Russia

Here is a wonderful card that can be an example of coffee card that I really-really like! Happiness is in details. I see on this card and can imagine aroma of coffee. I look at the cup and is inspired to make hot chocolate. I see a zebra on the cup and it makes me smile. So good emotions from one card :)

Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Postcard ID: RU-2868251
Country: Russia

Here is absolutely amazing card with qorgeous building on it! It's one from the most beautiful and interesting cards came to me this August! Oh, now I so want to see this with my own eyes!

Bibi-Khanym Mosque is a famous historical Friday mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, whose name comes from the wife of 14th-century ruler, Amir Timur.

After his Indian campaign in 1399 Timur decided to undertake the construction of a gigantic mosque in his new capital, Samarkand. The mosque was built using precious stones captured during his conquest of India. According to Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, 90 captured elephants were employed merely to carry precious stones, so as to erect a mosque at Samarkand — Bibi-Khanym Mosque. Construction was completed between 1399 and 1404. However, the mosque slowly fell into disuse, and crumbled to ruins over the centuries. Its demise was hastened due to the fact it pushed the construction techniques of the time to the very limit, and the fact that it was built too quickly. It eventually partially collapsed in 1897 when an earthquake occurred.

However, in 1974 the government of the then-Uzbek SSR began to reconstruct the mosque, although the current mosque (which is still not completed) is effectively a brand-new building, as no original work remains. 

The outer walls are 167 metres in length and 109 metres in width. The cupola of the main chamber reaches a height of 40 metres, and the entranceway is 35 metres high. There is a large marble Qur'an stand in the centre of the courtyard.

Flowers of tree

Postcard ID: LT-389979
Country: Lithuania

I'm not good in botany, so cannot identify by flowers what is the tree. Maybe, cherry or apple?

However I really love the time when trees are in bloom. Even in the big city this flavor stands out among all the other.

Here is also an interesting stamp with retro machine:

Struve Park, Latvia

Postcard ID: LV-157571
Country: Latvia

Here is a beautiful summer green card. I like to walk in parks like this one.

Called the Crown Garden during the first independence, Struve park was a popular recreation and entertainment location with wealthier residents. The park has become famous with its station of the geodetic ark measured by the professor of Tartu University, astronomer and geodesist Wilhelm von Struve. The Struve Geodetic Arc is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Here is a stamp:

Central Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Postcard ID: US-2250265
Country: USA

Description from the backside of the card:

This aerial of the city shows the new development which includes the moving of the junction of Woonasquatucket and Providence Rivers to create the new Memorial Boulevard (route 6) and the new Waterplace . Park and Riverwalk.

Providence is the capital and most populous city in Rhode Island. Founded in 1636, it is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is located in Providence County, and is the third-largest city in the New England region after Boston and Worcester.

Providence was founded by Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence", which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers to settle. After being one of the first cities in the country to industrialize, Providence became noted for its jewelry and silverware industry. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and seven institutions of higher learning, which has shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains significant manufacturing activity.

Once nicknamed the "Beehive of Industry," Providence began rebranding itself as the "Creative Capital" in 2009 to emphasize its educational resources and arts community.