I did these sitting on the beach, cutting up paint chips. I tried to catch the colors of the sky. It's amazing, when you look closely, how much is happening in the sky.

message side

front side of the postcard

Gandhi said "be the change." Lake Champlain chocolate says "let chocolate change your world." Ah ha! Eat chocolate, go in peace!

This will go to a Sendsomething mail enthusiast to whom I've owed a something for a long time.

This card is in recognition of Miss Massachusetts, who, when she introduced herself at the Miss American pageant last week, said she is "From the home of the Tea Party when it was still about TEA!" For those not living in the US, there is a political movement called The Tea Party movement that has steeped into almost every waking moment of our lives. It took its name from the famous Boston Tea Party, which was an 18th century political protest against unjust taxes. I hate that the Tea Party movement usurped an actual act of independence from tyranny. I've no idea what Miss Massachusetts' political leanings are, but I suspect she isn't a fan of the Tea Party movement either.

I am sending this up to MA, to a new-ish penfriend I haven't heard from since November. And I'm using this postage se-tenant to send it. It is vintage, 1976, I think, and I love having vintage postage that matches the card in some way.

Whenever we go to the hardware store, which is often because my significant other is quite the do-it-yourselfer, I spend way too much time in the paint department, reading the names of the paint colors on the chips. I love the names they give colors. I always come home with a huge stack of paint chips. One of these days "they" are going to notice, and will shut me off. But until then, I will gather as many chips as I can.

This card features three coffee colors, Mid Day Mocha on the right (sort of blends in with card background), Coffee Bean on the left, and the swirly one under the mouth is Macchiato. If my walls were painted any of these shades (and I am quite partial to that Mid Day Mocha color), I would find it hard not to crave coffee even more than I already do. I'm very suggestible when it comes to coffee. If I just read the word "coffee" in a book, I immediately want coffee. Not a good thing at night when I do most of my reading.

This is going to Canada, to Jeanne for whom I have owed a reply since early November. Yikes!