If you've read the intro, you know that this project began as a mother-daughter pastime, many years ago. Back then, Anna Falconer was a sweet little six-year-old pixie, always happy to settle in with markers and paper and create with me.
Some years later, she decided we should actually start a blog for the project rather than just thinking about it, so she set this up for us. By that time she had taken on the sport of falconry, which she used to name herself. Our home has been the host to a series of lovely little American kestrels and one injured redtail (very briefly). Her artistic talents grew; she has produced some incredible scratchboard portraits of raptors and images of feathers. She participated in Renn Faire with her birds, creating her own costumes by restructuring thrift-store finds. She bought a hammock and planned to live in her Suburban; later, as the Suburban aged and the she faced the challenge of securing the hammock, she decided to upgrade to a pickup truck with a cabover camper.
Well. Time passes, doesn't it? All this before she turned 18. Today, as I write this, she is at Parris Island, South Carolina, and in 2 1/2 weeks my little pixie, artist, falconer, hippie will become a United States Marine.
In the meantime, my own opportunities for even domestic travel have diminished (they were mostly work trips for my husband, whose work no longer requires him to travel). So the future of this project is uncertain, at least as far as the placing of postcards goes. I do have a backlog of returned cards that I will work through. And we'll see what develops!
mejaka
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