Hello lovely peeps,
Has it been a good week for you? Have you had many smiles? I have, especially this morning as I went to check my post box to find three postcards! Happy days!
One of them is this one:
It comes to me from Canada, from someone called Norm. There is no acknowledgement of the artist or copyright, so I have no idea who the artist is. But it is a fun illustration I think. A bit steampunky.
The stamp is interesting:
The international rate stamp features a photograph of the Qarlinngua sea arch in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, by Canadian photographer Clare Kines.
Canada Post writes:
Pronounced kar-ling-wah, the Qarlinngua sea arch is located approximately 85 kilometres southwest of the community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut, at the north end of Baffin Island.
The Inuktitut name means "like pants."
Locals estimate that the formation is more than 50 metres high.
Wind and water erosion over many years likely contributed to the formation.
It comes from a series called 'Far and Wide':
Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga – Torngat Mountains National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador (Michael Winsor)
Tehjeh Deé (South Nahanni River), Nááts'įhch'oh National Park Reserve – Northwest Territories (Colin Field)
Sunflowers – Altona, Manitoba (Mike Grandmaison)
Galiano Island, British Columbia (James Stevenson)
Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec (Ladislas Kadyszewski)
Point Prim Lighthouse – Belfast, Prince Edward Island (Sander Meurs)
Thousand Islands, Ontario (Ian Coristine)
Restigouche River, New Brunswick (Guylaine Bégin)
Qarlinngua sea arch – Arctic Bay, Nunavut (Clare Kines
What a fascinating natural phenomena.
Now back to Spain, where I am sweltering in the heat.
My lemon tree is growing lemons again:
There are in total seven tiny lemons.
My week was good. I've had people to lunch twice but didn't take any pictures. I've gone for a drink with friends on Saturday night. Again no pictures. I've been to aquagym twice in the evening. Again no photos but I have a photo of the municipal swimming pool:
I really don't have much to show you.
Perhaps I can show you this picture which I have hanging on the wall. It features my mum with me (on the right) and my sister (on the left).
It must have been the summer of 1956 as I am not wearing glasses. It is taken behind the shopping street where the optician is, so perhaps we had gone to buy said glasses.
Rotterdam was bombed completely during WWII so in the 1950s it was slowly being rebuilt.
çHere is a photo from the internet of the 'park' where our photo was taken.
And below you can see the shopping centre on the other side of the building:
The pedestrianised shopping centre is called the Lijnbaan and was quite a novelty in those days. Here is a photo of the Lijnbaan at night:
That is all from me today. Of course there are some funnies at the end.
Enjoy the weekend and don't forget to drink plenty of water during this heat.
Lisca
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