Sam I Am

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Toucan SAM®


Dear Tom,

Why a toucan? Why not a cock-of-the-rock? Never mind, a toucan will do. The sad part is, he'll outlast us both.

Dees

Frau mit Sonnenschirm

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Claude Monet:Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and her Son, 1875
Der Spaziergang. Frau mit Sonnenschirm • La Promenade. La Femme a l'ombrelle
Washington (DC), National Gallery of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Collection

Also reproduced in Claude Monet, Benedikt Taschen Verlag


Dear Martha,

No more destinations for a while, so impressionism will have to do.

It was nice of you to comment at ODOP - almost no one else does (there are two or three readers, I think).

Dees

Am Ufer der Seine bei Bennecourt

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Claude Monet: On the Seine at Bennecourt, 1868
Am Ufer der Seine bei Bennecourt • Au Bord de l'eau, Bennecourt
Chicago (IL), The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Collection, 1922.427

Also reproduced in Claude Monet, Benedikt Taschen Verlag


Dear Steve & Jack,

Hope it's actually summer in SF, as it is here. Steve - 49 states?!? Now you're two ahead of me. That'll never do. I need to drive to both SC & Ore. to catch up.

Dees

Turm zu Babel

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M.C. Escher: Tower of Babel, 1928
Turm zu Babel • Tour de Babel
Woodcut, 62 x 38.5 cm
© 1995 M.C. Escher/Cordon Art-Baarn-Holland. All rights reserved. M.C. Escher is a registered Trademark © of Cordon Art B.V.

Also reproduced in M.C. Escher, Benedikt Taschen Verlag.


Dear Jay, Deb, Dees & Robert,

A clutch of four cards arrived recently. Ann really liked the teapot, but mocked the end table.

[abstract drawing by Ann]

Dees

Accepted, By Gum

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Wrigley's ORBIT

Just brushed clean feeling™

Accepted by the American Dental Association

Artificially flavored Sugarfree Gum

Citrusmint

14 pieces

Wrigley's ORBIT

Just brushed clean feeling™

Accepted by the American Dental Association

Artificially flavored Sugarfree Gum

Raspberry mint

14 pieces

Wrigley's ORBIT

Just brushed clean feeling™

Accepted by the American Dental Association

Artificially flavored Sugarfree Gum

Maui melon mint

14 pieces


Dear Geof & Nancy

Note - "accepted" by the ADA. Is it a full-throated acceptance or a grudging one?

Dees

Poppin 12

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Pillsbury

QUICK BREAD
Quick Bread & Coffee Cake Mix

Pecan Swirl
Artificially flavored

MADE WITH REAL PECANS!

[Poppin Fresh Doughboy]


Dear Jay, Deb, Dees & Robert,

Not bad for cake mix. It also made me think of Poppin 12, mythical leader of all Poppins, whom I haven't thought of in 35 years or more.

Dees

The Raisins That Climbed Mt. Everest!

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BOGHOSIAN

California Sun Dried Raisins

The Raisins That Climbed Mt. Everest!

A Fat Free
Cholesterol Free Food

Net Wt. 15 oz (425g)


Dear Wendall & Stephanie,

Rec'd your recent card from Santa Fe. Here's one from my kitchen.

Dees

Cha!

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175mg Protective Antioxidants
Naturally per Serving
See Side for Details

Naturally Protective
AOX™
Antioxidants

LIPTON®
100% Natural Tea


Dear Geof & Nancy,

This may be the yellowest card you receive all year.

Dees

Candy & Tours

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Rebecca Ruth Candy & Tours
112 East Second St., Frankfort, KY 40601
Tours: Mon - Sat 9 am - 4:30 pm
www.rebeccaruth.com 502-223-7475

Models by:

Images Model & Talent Agency
Lexington, KY www.imagesmodelagency.com 859-273-2301

Dear Geof & Nancy,

An example of the art of Photoshop. But what are those balloons doing next to the Kentucky state capitol?

Dees

One More Time, Athena

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Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee

The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, is the world's only full-scale replica of the ancient Greek Parthenon. A gold and ivory statue of Athena Parthenon, goddess of war and wisdom and patron goddess of the city Athens, stood within the original Parthenon for about 500 years after the original building's completion in the 5th century BC. Artist Alan LeQuire's 41'10" re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue in the Nashville Parthenon was completed in 1990. In 2002 the Nashville statue was gilded and painted to more fully replicate the gold and ivory of the original.

Gary Layda, Photographer

Dear Martha,

You might have not been back to N-ville recently enough to see this. I hadn't, until last month.

Dees

Edith, We Hardly Knew Ya

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Edith Bowen Teacher Education Laboratory School

Utah State University

Located in the northeast section of the campus. It is here that students majoring in elementary education at Utah State University receive most of their professional training. Children in kindergarten through sixth grade are enrolled in the laboratory school. Classroom situations are provided in which University students are able to study child development and the learning processes as they are exhibited.

Color by Tracy Maero


Dear Tom,

Somehow this card ended up in my possession. Now it's yours. Enjoy.

Dees

Refer to July 10

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Mammoth Cave National Park

#17099 Frozen Niagara

A magnificent wall of flowstone is the centerpiece of the cave's travertine 75 feet high and 50 feet wide.

Photographer - Chip Clark

Mammoth Cave Hotel
www.MammothCaveHotel.com
A Forever Resort - Play•Preserve•Protect™


Dear Geof & Nancy,

Compare w/the July 10 card.

Dees

Buffalo Trace

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Buffalo Trace Distillery

800-654-8471 www.buffalotrace.com

Along with being the most award-winning distillery in the world, Buffalo Trace proudly holds the title of the oldest continually operating distillery in America, remaining operational even during Prohibition -- for "medicinal" purposes. A trip to Buffalo Trace offers visitors a taste of history, heritage and of course, fine Kentucky Bourbon.


Dear Dave & Liz,

The best part of the distillery is the smell from hundreds of barrels of aging bourbon.

Dees

Marble Shaft W/Eagle on Top

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Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Grave of President Andrew Johnson

The marble shaft which markets the grave of Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), 17th President of the United States, was erected by the Johnson family in 1878. Located in Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Tennessee, the monument symbolizes Johnson's devotion to constitutional principles.

AJ-3

© Eastern National


Dear Layne,

Here's one for your dead president postcard collection. Lately we were in E. Tenn. Wish we'd had time enough to go to Georgia too.

Dees

The Billiard Room, Gents

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BILTMORE™

The Billiard Room at Biltmore House

Located in the Bachelor's Wing of George W. Vanderbilt's country chateau, the Billiard Room was a place where the men would retire after dinner to smoke and play billiards. True to Victorian fashion, women rarely, if ever, entered this male domain.


Dear Dan,

Clearly, we were born too late and too middle class. A perfect room to relax & speculate about what that old bastard the Kaiser might be up to next.

Dees

Books, Books, Books

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BILTMORE™

The Library at Biltmore Estate

Housing over 10,000 of the 23,000 books in the Biltmore House collection, the Library reflects George Vanderbilt's love of learning and the arts. The impressive eighteenth-century canvas on the Library ceiling, painted by Giovanni Pellegrini, was bought to Biltmore House from Pisani Palace in Venice, Italy.


Dear George & Ellen,

Lately we visited the Smokies on the Tenn.-NC border & spent a day at Biltmore as well -- astonishing place in size & decor.

Dees

Back to Biltmore

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BILTMORE™

George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate

Recalling the romance of turn-of-the-century elegance, George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina offers a glimpse of a bygone era. The 250-room French Renaissance-style chateau, first opened in 1895, still houses original furnishings and art objects collected by Mr. Vanderbilt during his lifetime.


Dear Victor,

Lately we toured various splendid places between here & North Carolina. Biltmore counts as splendor in many ways.

Dees

Chief Henry is Back

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"Chief Henry" of the Cherokee Indians

"Chief Henry" a Cherokee is one of the most photographed Indians in the world and truly a visitor's delight. About 20,000 Cherokee Indians lived in North Carolina when the White Man settled America.

Photo by Jim Doane


Dear Lee,

Good to run into you & Bill at Wendy's last weekend. I will make a point of sending you many fine tourist postcards from now on.

Dees

Meat & Ice Cream

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The Parthenon - Nashville, Tennessee

The Parthenon in Nashville was created for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897 and today stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park. Nashville's Parthenon is a full-scale replica of the original in Athens, as it looked upon completion in 438 B.C. The building reinforces Nashville's nickname, "Athens of the South," and includes a re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue, which stands 41' 10" tall.


Dear Wendy & Ted,

Had a fine time at the cookout, thanks for having us over. Meat & ice cream in the back yard, w/ fireflies: What else do you need?

Dees

Water Vapor and Hydrocarbons

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

#17341 The Great Smoky Mountains are named for the blue haze that often surrounds them. The haze comes from the water vapor and hydrocarbons given off by the trees. To the Cherokees, this was Shaconage, the place of blue smoke.

Photographer - Adam Jones


Dear Wendall & Stephanie,

We returned to our near-Chicago home without any difficulty other than a numbing drive through Indiana.

Dees

Edwin Booth in Mammoth Cave

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Mammoth Cave National Park

#17106 Booth's Amphitheatre in Mammoth Cave

From this lofty stage of limestone, Edwin Booth recited from Hamlet to a group of cave visitors in 1872.

Photographer - Chip Clark

Mammoth Cave Hotel
www.MammothCaveHotel.com
A Forever Resort - Play•Preserve•Protect™


Dear Jay, Deb, Dees & Robert,

The park service is missing an opportunity in not re-creating this show.

Dees

Frozen Niagara

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Mammoth Cave National Park

#17100 Frozen Niagara

Mammoth Cave's outstanding example of nature's subterranean artistry 75 feet high and 50 feet wide.

Photographer - Chip Clark

Mammoth Cave Hotel
www.MammothCaveHotel.com
A Forever Resort - Play•Preserve•Protect™


Dear Geof & Nancy,

Compare & contrast to the card dated July 20, 2008.

Dees

At Least We Saw Bears

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"Unto These Hills"

Cherokee, North Carolina

Dramatic scenes of Indian dancers can be seen nightly except Sunday, mid-June through late August, at Mountainside Theatre.

Photo courtesy Cherokee Historical Association


Dear Bill,

We went to Cherokee recently, ate lunch & visited a bear pit. Unfortunately, we had no time or energy for these dramatic scenes.

Dees

A Big Hole

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Mammoth Cave National Park

#17104 Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave

This Mammoth Natural Entrance was discovered in 1799 by a bear hunter named Houchins while tacking a wounded bear into the cave. Indians used reed torches for light as they used this deep dark entrance in the early days. This entrance has been a showplace since 1816.

Photographer - Chip Clark

Mammoth Cave Hotel
www.MammothCaveHotel.com
A Forever Resort - Play•Preserve•Protect™


Dear Kirk,

Just back from Kentucky & East Tennessee. Pretty interesting hole in the ground here.

Dees

Even More Biltmore

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BILTMORE™

The Walled Garden at Biltmore Estate

Containing flower beds arranged in patterns similar to an Elizabethan knot garden, Biltmore's Walled Garden offers a progression of color starting with daffodils and tulips in the spring and ending with thousands of chrysanthemums in the fall.


Dear Jim,

The gardens -- very large gardens -- at Biltmore might have interested you more than the house.

Dees

More Biltmore

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BILTMORE™

The Winter Garden in Biltmore House

The magnificent glass-ceilinged room is a dramatic example of the turn-of-the-century love of plants and flowers. The Winter Garden is much the same as it was in George Vanderbilt's time with tropical greenery and an ever-changing variety of flowering plants.


Dear Steve & Jack,

Just back recently from the Smokies, including a day at Biltmore. My favorite room was the basement bowling alley.

Dees

Biltmore

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BILTMORE™

George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914)

The youngest son of W.H. Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt did not follow his brothers in the family railroad business, but chose instead a life of learning and travel. He is perhaps best known for his magnificent Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, where he gathered experts in architecture, landscaping, agriculture, and forestry to create his self-sustaining European-style estate.


Dear Neal & Michele,

Spent most of a day at Biltmore recently, as part of a Tenn.-NC visit. Wished we'd had time to continue on to Georgia.

Dees

Missed Mary Todd

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Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

This portrait show Andrew Johnson as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Painted in 1860 by Samuel Shaver, it probably would have been destroyed by the soldiers occupying the Johnson home without the quick thinking of Sarah Cutler, a Johnson neighbor. She wrapped it in newspaper and used it as a firescreen throughout the war.

www.nps.gov/anjo


Dear Ed,

A good domestic trip always includes a dead president site -- or more than one. If we'd had time, we would have seen Mary Todd's house in Lexington as well.

Dees

Chimney Tops

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

#49933 At 4,800 feet, the Chimney Tops provide a commanding view of Mt. LeConte and the valley of the West Prong of the Little Pigeon River. The very popular two-mile-long trail to the Chimneys is one of the steepest in the park.

Photographer - Bill Lea


Dear Aunt Sue,

Except for the touches of red & yellow, the mountains looked like this in early July.

Dees

Snack

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Little Debbie Has a Snack For You®


Dear Geof & Nancy,

And if Little Debbie doesn't have a snack for you, who does?

Dees

An Overlooked Bicentennial

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Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Greenville, Tennessee

The house was occupied by Andrew Johnson and his family from the 1830s to 1851. In 1851, Johnson took this house and lot and $950.00 and traded it for the Andrew Johnson homestead.

Photo by Jerry Hankins

© Eastern National


Dear Tom,

A. Johnson's bicentennial is in December '08. Lincoln's, in February '09, will get all the attention.

Dees