A Postcard A day - Tuesday 16 April 2019 - T for Mexico, succulents and Baileys

That your day begin with a smile.

Good Morning.

How are you all? As you can see by the above photo, I can't wait to join the T-Party at Bluebeard and Elizabeth's. Anyone is welcome with a beverage in the post somewhere.

I always start with some postcards. I belong to an online community called Postcrossing. We swap postcards. I get an address randomly selected to send a postcard to. The postcard has an ID code. As soon as the person receives the card, he/she registers the ID code and writes a thank you note to me. Then I receive a card from another member (not the same one as I sent the card to). There are 762000 members in 215 countries of the world. Awesome. I love it.

One of the cards I received last week comes from the Czech Republic:

A work by Blanka Tomsova (2016). I've not been able to find out much about the artist other than that she designs postcards. (http://www.yourpostcards.cz/blanka-tomsova/). Anyway I like this card very much.

The stamp celebrates Postcrossing, which I think  is great. Several countries have stamps dedicated to Postcrossing.

My next card come from the USA, from someone who had been to a Postcrossing Meet-Up in Mexico City. 

The text on the card reads: "Hello, & Greetings from New Mexico (USA!). My name is Sam. On the 12 Jan 2019 I attended a Meet-up in Mexico City and it was a wonderful experience to meet 20 Mexican Postcrossers. The weather was much warmer  compared with the freezing weather at home. The Meet-up was held in a beautiful colonial old building. Have you attended a Meet-up? What was your experience?"

 The stamps were very beautiful. The first one (on the left) is a 5c stamp from 1965. 

This Florida Settlement Issue stamp commemorates the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Florida and the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States. The earliest known European explorers came with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, who named it “La Pascua de la Florida,” which refers to the Easter season and the flower-filled landscape. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine which is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States. The stamp features an image of Spanish explorer, the royal flag of Spain and a ship.

 The two stamps on the right are  2017 issued Christmas carol stamps. Sam had also stuck a Mexican stamp on the card just for fun in another corner. 

I would like to show you one of my succulents I have. This one is called Huernia Hystrix. It was given to me by one of my prayer partners Pilar. She had several big plants on her balcony. She just broke off a significant chunk and I planted it. Look at it. It is doing so well, it is now going to flower! (Then Pilar unexpectedly died a month after she gave me this plant, so I treasure it).

There is one large bud. I have looked on the internet and the flowers are beautiful. I'm so excited. I'll show you when the time comes.

 How do you like this coffee set? It was my mother's but she doesn't use it anymore. And it's coming my way! 

 Of course it is not in this country. It sits in my sister's garage in the UK I think. So next time we travel by car, this will be in our trunk/boot. It will grace my glass cabinet.

Sunday after church, as we're in town, we go to a particular bar to have coffee. I have a cafe cortado (espresso with a dash of milk) and a Baileys.  

 Hubby has a cafe con leche (coffee with milk) and also a Baileys.

It's a typical Spanish bar, with the Serrano hams hanging above the counter. The little conical thingies, are to catch possible drops of grease (I have never seen hams leak, it's too dry a climate here). But it's a new European law.

There we are. That's it from me today.

I wish you all a great T-Day,
Hugs,
Lisca