Now about my last five sent cards. This multiview was sent to Finland. The addressee is a gardener and she likes nature (trees, flowers, animals, mushrooms, etc.). On this card are typical mushrooms of a small forest near of Szeged: 1. Common morel (Morchella esculenta) 2. Common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum) 3. Shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus) 4. Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) 5. Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) 6. Earthstar species (Astraeus sp.). This small forest belong to the Forestry School "Albert Bedő" in Ásotthalom. This school issued some similar postcards. All there are nice!
Earlier I sent a similar card to Canada. On this you can see the most common animals to hunt living in the School Forest,
Ásotthalom: 1. Red deer (
Cervus elaphus), 2. European hare (
Lepus europaeus), 3. European roe deer (
Capreolus capreolus), 4. Common pheasant (
Phasianus colchicus), 5. Wild boar (
Sus scrofa), 6. Red fox (
Vulpes vulpes). The card traveled 15 days and liked only by two postcrossers.
On the mushroom card I pasted a stamp from the
National Gallery miniature sheet. There is a painting made by
Károly Ferenczy. Title is "
October". Ferenczy (1862-1917) was a Hungarian painter. He studied in Rome, Munich and Paris. He was a member of an
artists’ colony in
Nagybánya, in what is now Rumania, from 1896 to 1906. Ferenczy was one of the leading Hungarian landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works, noted for their highly ornamental color schemes and composition, include genre scenes, as well as landscapes and numerous compositions depicting scenes from the Gospels and other books of the Bible.
On 13th January I sent not only the mushroom card. The second one is a beautiful art card. I bought it in Vienna in May, 2012. Title: "Stars for Two". I like painted
cats very much. These two are particularly among my favourites, because there are two black cats. There are similar to my cats. My cats are about 17 months old. For one year ago they lived with on the street and they suffered from hunger and cold. In November of 2011 I made a home for them. The start of our "family life" didn't go smoothly, because they were afraid of humans and didn't know toilet etc. Now they are totally domesticated. All the lovely naive pictures of the Austrian artist
Rosina Wachtmeister are beautiful. I would like to receive some similar cards! I sent this glittering postcard to a 27 year old Taiwanese artist. The half of the
miniature sheet Porcelain Manufacture Herend was sent as stamps with the two black cats.
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On 15th January I have written two cards. One of them is an old card, printed in the 1970s. There is the
Castle of Somoskő. It was built in North Hungary in the 14th century and destroyed in time of Turkish regime in the 17th century. Now the Hungarian-Slovakian border is between the village Somoskő and the castle, therefore the ruins belong to Slovakia.
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I send it to the Netherlands. The addressee collects stamps, therefore I picked out three great stamps. On the big stamp is a colourful hand-made
embroidery typical of region of
Kalocsa, a town in South Hungary. White-tailed Eagle is an endangered bird species of Hungary. On the third
stamp is a Mayan sculpture. It was issued in 1992, on the 500th anniversary of discovery of America.
The other card written on 15th was sent to Canada. It is a typical tourist card from
Szeged. There is the Roman Catholic
Votive Church dedicated to “Our Lady of Hungary” by night. This building is the symbol of Szeged. It is the 4th biggest cathedral of Hungary. It was built between 1913 and 1930 to give thanks for survival the
great flood of
Tisza River in 1879.
The 5th card was sent to a 10 years old girl. She lives in Ukraine and she speaks Russian and English. Her parents are sure to help her to write and read English cards. I wrote my message in Russian. It was a hard work, because I have forgotten what I learned in school. I like to write Cyrillic letters particularly characters differing from our letters, e.g.
ж, я, ю, ы, ч, ш, л. I think children are not postcrossing-machines and they are really happy to received cards. The little girl like painted cats therefore I picked out a lovely cat card issued by UNICEF.
The cute cat fly to Donetsk with these three stamps. The middle one is a well known Hungarian painting and part of the
National Gallery miniature sheet. "
Picnic in May" painted by
Pál Szinyei Merse is a beautiful picture.This Painting was on my postcard
HU-43409 sent to Belarus one year ago.
On 15th January one of my sent card (
HU-52612) arrived in Thailand. I have written about it on
4th January, 2013.
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