A Postcard A Day - Monday 2 November 2026 - Second on the second and T for Tuesday in one

 Hello lovely peeps,

I'm showing you a post from 2025 around the same date. The honouring of the dead is a big thing here and I too went to the cemetery yesterday to 'see' my husband, having cleaned the marble stone the day before. The cemetery was full of flowers and colour. A feast for the eye!

At the end of my Second on the 2nd I will post a few lines about this week and a drink of course for the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard.

Good Morning! Good Monday!

Here in Spain it's a Bank Holiday, i.e. a day off. The official festival day was yesterday, the 1st of November (All Saints day) when everybody goes to the cemetery to pay respects to loved ones who have past away. Graves get spruced up, there are flowers everywhere, and the cemetery is the busiest it's been all year. This year the 1st of November fell on a Sunday, so the Spanish have their day off on Monday!

As I am in Spanish mode I want to show you a Spanish map card today. Postcrossing members often ask for map cards, so I do my best to find them. A few weeks ago I went to a Christian Women's Conference on the coast which involved travelling by bus. When I was at the Granada bus station I found a stall that sold postcards and lo and behold they sold map cards! Hurray! I immediately bought five!

This is the region I live in. I live on the far right of the green bit. I have marked it with a little black asterix. The yellow dotted areas are national parks and as you can see we live just outside a national park. It is a beautiful area. Here is another postcard:

I know it's very dry and these are what they call 'badlands' where nothing grows, but I find it stunningly beautiful!

Finally I'd like to show you a new sheet of postage stamps that I bought at the post office this week:

They are about rural architecture, and to be used for mail inside Europe.

That's me done for today.

See you again tomorrow when I link up with T for Tuesday.

Blessings,

Lisca

This is my T-for-Tuesday post:

Starting with a postcard I received through Postcrossing:

Wikipedia writes:

Mammoth Cave National Park is a national park of the United States in south-central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world. The park's 52,007 acres (21,046 ha) are located primarily in Edmonson County, with small areas extending eastward into Hart and Barren counties. 

The Green River runs through the park, with a tributary called the Nolin River feeding into the Green just inside the park.

The cave system has formally been known as the Mammoth–Flint Ridge Cave System since 1972, when a connection was discovered between Mammoth Cave and the even longer system under Flint Ridge to the north. As of 2025, more than 426 miles (686 km) of passageways had been surveyed, over 1.5 times longer than the second-longest cave system, Mexico's Ox bel ha underwater cave.

The park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941, after oft-contentious eminent domain proceedings whose consequences still affect the region. It was named a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981; an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990; and an International Dark Sky Park on October 28, 2021.

Beautiful isn't it.

The stamp is an unusual one:

It celebrates Postcrossing! 

I've had a busy weekend. It's been All Hallows and All Saints here and today, as All Saints fell on a Sunday, people here also have Monday off.

I'm having my friend Ineke from Holland visiting me and of course we went out for meals and for drinks:

Here we are having a G & T each. Of course this is my 'ticket' to the T-Party.

Outside the bar, where the empties were stacked I found a little carved pumpkin. It's the first one I have seen in Spain:

I'm wearing a jacket and scarf as it was evening and having a dog with us, we had to sit outside. (I'm a cold mortal).

That is all for today,

Happy Second on the 2nd and Happy T-Day to all!

Lisca