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| Butterflies of America 64 Color Illustrations Lillian Davids Fazzini 1934 |
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| Title Page Butterflies and Moths of America Whitman Publishing Company Racine, Wisconsin |
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| Content example: Monarch Butterfly |
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| Content example: Monarch Butterfly (cont'd) with illustration |
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| Content example: Beautiful Utetheisa |
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| Preface to Butterflies and Moths of America |
A Postcard for the Weekend
The theme for Postcards for the Weekend #22 is "Anything you wish" and, so, we thought you might enjoy this view of the air-conditioned deluxe coach, with seats that rotate and recline, aboard the Erie Limited. The back of the postcard says, "One charming vista after another greets the eye of the traveler on the Erie between New York and Chicago over the scenic route of the East. Published by the Erie Railroad, probably early 1930s. See more interesting postcards at Postcards for the Weekend and thanks to Maria for hosting!
Skies
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| Two Brothers Mountain Olympic Mountain Range Pink light of early morning. Jan. 27th 7:42 AM |
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| A Washington State Ferry crossing Puget Sound at Sunset Jan. 23rd 4:50 PM |
Ships
The largest fish processing vessel operating in the United States is the SS Ocean Phoenix, we spotted January 23rd. This vessel has an interesting history as described on it's webpage (see a screen capture below).
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| SS Ocean Phoenix Spotted Jan 23rd 9:42 AM Near Port of Seattle with two tugs. |
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| SS Ocean Phoenix Website Page Premier Pacific Seafoods |
Choose your love, Love your choice.
Thomas S Monson
Hello, John! Wonderful post on the butterflies and postcards. The book is great. Love the sky captures too. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!
ReplyDeleteMagnificent sky indeed, John...Cheers from NYC
ReplyDeletekilroy loves flutterbys
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards and pictures!
ReplyDeleteThe train card reminds me a little of travelling by train here in Japan! Love it.
Wonderful posts ~ love the postcard and gorgeous sky shots ~ beautiful butterflies too ~ thanks,
ReplyDeleteWishing you a Happy Weekend ~ ^_^
Great thoughts and photos...greetings!
ReplyDeleteINtersting and I LOVE all you things, photos and tekst about butterflies.
ReplyDeleteI love butterflies and like taking pictures of them but don't know a lot of the names.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. Love the ships.
ReplyDeleteMy interest is in bird books. sSbleys is the best right now. For an antique check out Tavener's. It's a classic and I don't have it but it was the first bird book in our house.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post. Butterflies are so fascinating, although,I must admit,I am not good at identifying the..Love,love,love the Two Brothers shot.Awesome.Have a wonderful weekend,or what's left of it.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see a 'butterfly' guide that includes moths. So many guides fail to appreciate their beauty.
ReplyDeleteI find field guides a fascination, nice to browse while sitting on one of those reclining and swivelling seats, a colourful coach.
ReplyDeleteAnother winner of a post, John. I love the illustrations of the butterflies, and I smiled to see the postcard with all the women wearing hats. Another era, that's for sure. Your skies are always amazing. :-)
ReplyDeleteI like the postcard. Nowadays, when travelling by train, I see everyone looking at their electronic devices... :!
ReplyDeleteI love train travel. Later this year, I hope to take the Auto Train, which runs from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL. It will be my 5th time. You see the world so differently from the window of a train than from the window of a car. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteHi John, excellent stuff every time here in your page, really! Thanks for all these skyline photos of Seattle that I reckon I might no longer see in person with the current situation in the USA. Thanks also for the vintage deluxe seats postcard -- always love visiting your page for these!
ReplyDeleteThose seats on the train look quite comfortable!
ReplyDeleteAnd your butterfly book is charming.
I love butterflies. These postcards reminds me of the comics I read when I was a kid. It always bring joy seeing such awesome pictures :)
ReplyDeleteI like the vintage train one, sets the imagination going...
ReplyDeleteLovely butterfly book!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the train interior card. As Eva already noted, nowadays the illustrator would have seen and made a totally different image of the passengers (who maybe would be watching this blog post :-) )
What lovely skies!
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