Postcard feature: She sells seashells

Remember this old tongue-twister?  When I first heard it as a child, it defied not only pronunciation, but my sense of logic.  Who would SELL seashells by the seashore, when people could just pick their own up for free?

Since then, I've been to the seashore many times and I've found some lovely shells.  I've also found that people will definitely buy seashells by the seashore, from people who sell them there.

Here's the finder's note:
Found in a book at the Warrenton Community Library in Warrenton, OR! Nettie.

Thanks, Nettie, for sending it back to us!  This is one of my favorites. :)

Postcard feature: Rhodies

Sometimes I do a card that is, frankly, beyond my abilities.  I'm a calligrapher, not a watercolorist, and yet I love watercolor so much that I persist--not in learning watercolor, but in trying to use it with no clue what I'm doing.

So yeah, here is a really terrible watercolor of some rhododendrons, with some pretty lettering so you can tell what they are. :)  Fun fact--I did this lettering with a guerilla travel pen, a Nikko G nib hacked into a cheap fountain pen.  It was awesome to travel and still be able to do some great lettering without carrying a bunch of stuff with me and trying to decide where to put the bottle of ink!

Big thanks to the Moss family for hiding these cards for us!  I'm pretty sure the Moss family hid them.  Didn't I give them to the Mosses for hiding?  (I'm pretty sure we hid some in Astoria but the Mosses hid the ones in Warrenton...)

Wow, it's been a long time since June when we were at the Coast....At any rate, we did have some wonderful times with my friend Heather and her family of Mosses. :)

The finder's note says:

Greetings!  This turned up in the Warrenton Community Library some time in July.  Great idea! N L Calog.

Thanks for sending this one back to us!