Heart to heart

As nobody has thought to send me any Valentine's Day cards (but I suppose there's still time) I'm showing a card that's about to be sent out rather than one I received.  It comes from a book of postcards by Jan Constantine, all with stitched Union Jacks as a theme.

This is a post for Postcard Friendship Friday hosted on Beth Niquette's blog, The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

The footie 2012

The big thing of the moment seems to be "the footie" as we sometimes call soccer in my part of the world.  In my home anyway.  I seem to have had a lot of cards from Ukraine recently and almost without fail they mention the big  UEFA championship, Euro 2012, co-hosted between Poland and Ukraine.  Today this one arrived - it doesn't only mention it but also illustrates it.

The girl on the left is waving the flag and wearing the colours of Poland, on the right is Ukraine.  I would never have thought I would say this about anything connected with football, but it makes a very attractive card.

This is a post for Postcard Friendship Friday hosted on Beth Niquette's blog The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

St George's Day

The flag of St George is one of the three flags that make up the Union flag, the other two being the flags of St Patrick for Ireland and the flag of St Andrew for Scotland.

This card is an artist's impression of St George's Gate in Canterbury, the only gate in Canterbury's walls that didn't date from Roman times. It dates only from about the 9th or 10th century..  It was taken down in 1801, with "deep regret" to allow a new road to be built.  Bricks have been laid in the modern road surface to indicate the position and extent of the original gate.

Why these two cards?  Because today is St George's Day.

Arizona state flag

If you were to read the Postcrossing forum, you would once find people there saying how very many cards they receive from Finland, more than anywhere else.  As things have expanded and developed American cards became commonplace and at the moment they remain so - though with the Far East rapidly catching up.

Personally I seem to have far more cards arriving from Eastern Europe than anywhere else, and sadly few from the USA.  So I was pleased when this card arrived, and doubly so when I read that it came from 6 year old Benjamin and he had written it himself.  I will treasure it.

Arizona State Flag
The Arizona State Flag was adopted by the legislature in 1917.  The top half of the flag represents the original 13 colonies of the United States and the western setting sun.  The copper star in the center identifies Arizona as the largest copper producing state in the union.