It's An Avalanche! *part 1*

My postcards have been piling up, but today I'm ready to share! Here goes....

Albert, from The Netherlands, is seriously into all things mail -- but mostly stamps, which he has been collecting for the past 50 years. He exchanges them, he paints them, he exhibits them. He belongs to stamp clubs. He coordinates stamp juries. He is editor of a stamp magazine. And he mails postcards with stamps on them to people like me. This postcard shows the town of Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy. (I guess he travels, too.)

Carmen, from Seattle, Washington, is a nurse that lives right beside the Space Needle. She says she "lives in the moment and savors it." Good advice, I'd say. She also enjoys random images and feels that they are oddly beautiful. I can agree with that, too.

L'viv, Ukraine is where Oxana makes her home. She, too, is a nurse and her hobbies include movies, the internet, and cosmetics! Her postcard shows King Danylo Galytskiy (1201 - 1264) who founded her city of L'viv in 1256.

Tarne is from Vierema, Finland, where it was 12 degrees C and raining when he wrote me this card. (That's 54 degrees F in our world.) His postcard shows the local museum.

Family heritage is important to the people of The Netherlands, and the clothes people wear indicates where they are from, what they do, and how they worship. Or at least it used to, anyway. Aletta, from Antwerp, sent a postcard showing this style of dress and "kap." She says her family is a fishing family and their clothing is more colorful, with a pattern of red flowers. She, however, is a Legal Advisor, mostly hired by the government to be their representative in court. So her grandmother wore the traditional style of clothes. Aletta wears a suit.

Monika from Taiwan shared part of her holiday with me. She and some co-workers went to Sabah, a beautiful island in Malaysia. They stayed at Nexus Resort & Spa and Villas Suites Karambunai. The resort's slogan is "Some Say it's Heaven", and Monika agrees that it just might be. When not on holiday, 26-year-old Monika enjoys swimming, movies, shopping, eating delicious food, and taking photos.

What's the number for reservations?