"Alice" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "All Things Alice".

Important note about SPA: Mandy has been locked out of Wordpress, and had to create Sunday Postcard Art on Google blogger blogspot here.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go

White Rabbit (Go Ask Alice) - Jefferson Airplane

"Full Snow Moon" - Postcard

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February's full moon, which occurs on February 1, 2026 this year, is called the Full Snow Moon, because February is usually the snowiest month during Winter in the United States. Earlier this week, I thought Mother Nature was going to give the US Northeast a second round of heavy snowfall with the Nor'Easter that was approaching this area on February 1, 2026. But I think the Wind God pushed it further east, so now it looks like most of New England will be spared. With over one foot (0.3 meters) of snow already on the ground, not melting due to the frigid temperatures, there wasn't anywhere for another one foot or more of snow to be plowed away to.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Snow Queen" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Blue Monday".

I think I misunderstood what the theme was, so I'm not posting what I had originally made, and cobbled this together today. Where I live in the Northeast US, it has been snowing off and on since yesterday. And although the total accumulation when it ends late tonight won't be as bad as some past snow storms have been, it is enough to create icy road conditions. And then, as is typical for this part of the US, bitter cold will arrive for the third (Blue) Monday of January.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Head Games" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Rules For Thee But Not For Me" - Postcard

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My piece is a "cartoon" in the same vein as Charlie Hebdo cartoons. (Their "cartoon" offended me, but apparently some thought it was "funny" so, I too, can make cartoons that others might find offensive.) My piece and words are also free speech that is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (Well, it used to be, prior to the ascension of the US Government Ministry of Truth dictating to Social Media Platforms which of their users need to be banned for "misinformation" as defined by the Government.)

Maybe Tom the bully will leave me another comment, telling me to shut up, because I'm not allowed to say anything unless he (and other "Free Speech is fine as long as it agrees with mine" bullies) approves of it.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The Sun Queen - Week 14 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was The Sun Queen.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Full Snow Moon" - Postcard

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The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Full Snow Moon - Week 08 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was Full Snow Moon.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

Snow Queen - Week 03 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was Snow Queen.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Snow Queen 2" - Postcard

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I made another art piece for this week's Sunday Postcard Art theme "Snow Queen".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Snow Queen" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Snow Queen".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.36

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

"Alice In Wonderland" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Alice In Wonderland".

Note: I'm behind on visiting blogs and leaving comments.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

"Chess Match" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Chess."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.30

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

"Queen Of Chess" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Chess."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.30

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"When The Venom Crept In" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.30

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I wondered when the venom crept it
Then, finally, I realized it was always there
I just didn't see it until later

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It's sad, (so sad) so sad
It's a sad, sad situation

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (It's sad) - Elton John

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If you want to call me a stupid, self centered Anti-Vaxxer with regard to the covid-19 shot, then I can call you Pro Human Experimentation, or PHE for short. Is that label inaccurate about you, and maybe even hurtful? When you retract your misnomer with regard to the covid-19 shot, then I'll retract mine of you. But I won't hold my breath, the way Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti did at the January 2022 NFL playoff game, per what was no doubt a CDC covid-19 guideline. Because it's all about the Science, and I bow down to your Superior Intellect.

Crowns - Week 13 - The Book of Days

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The week13 theme for my Book of Days was Crowns.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.30.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Crowns" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Crowns."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.30

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

"Queen Serenade" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Summer Knights" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

This piece is similar to another one I made recently.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I use my own invented term “predictable performance” to predict beforehand the actions of those who are in power on the “world stage.” I have a high accuracy percentage rate. Predicting what will happen is not hard to do, if one is paying attention to actions instead of words. But it also requires one to be objective, which fewer people seem to be able to be these days. Sometimes my timeline is a bit off, but my prediction itself is still correct. But sometimes I’m completely wrong, too. Time will tell, which category 9/9/2021 falls into.

99 Red Balloons - Nena

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
As 99 red balloons go by.


I wonder if the Roman Empire had a huge debt held by (owed to) other “countries” just before it collapsed.

I also wonder if there were people pulling the strings and mocking the Romans, as the Roman Empire collapsed.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; (Othello - Shakespeare)


Nights In White Satin (full version) - Moody Blues

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Just what I'm going through they can't understand.
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,

Breath deep
The gathering gloom
Cold hearted orb
That rules the night

"Summer Knight Passion" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I know I can't be the only one who notices all of the clever, "cute" nicknames the US Government, US News Media, and US Entertainment industries have come up with over the decades:

"Baghdad Bob", "Jihadi John"

"Patrick Price", "Parker Promo", "Maya Markdown", etc. (State Farm insurance)

Harley Quinn (harlequin, DC Comics), Brook Lynn (Brooklyn, soap opera General Hospital)

Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla

I’m surprised they haven’t found a way to be clever with shape words like Polygon, etc.

Because we've had clever uses of numbers. Remember how some people were getting married on dates like 7/7/2007, 8/8/2008, 9/9/2009, etc.? 12/12/2012 was the last date available for that sequence until 2101. But 4/3/21 was also popular. (ABC News) So maybe 8/13/21 will be too. (Fibonacci)

Numbers like 9/9 work well in the world of "cute" because the date format is the same in the US and the EU. I wonder if anything "momentous" will happen on 9/9/2021.


99 - Toto
99, I've been waiting so long
I never thought it would happen


Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison
Well, I tried to tell you so
'Cause I knew it from the start
Letting all the people know