Monday, April 18, 2011

Happy Birthday

If today is your birthday, don't worry about paying your taxes. I'm sure the IRS will understand.




The message on the last card, sent to Lydia Spies, reads:

Dear Lydia
May Years be made of Sunny Days, 
And Lifes own sky be blue,
With friendship shedding full its rays on all your dreams come tue
from your friend
Caroline Plath   ...presumably no relation to Sylvia Plath
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10 comments:

  1. Bob ScotneyApril 18, 2011 at 7:19 AM

    Too sickly for me!

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  2. Postcard RoundupApril 18, 2011 at 8:04 AM

    Say, are those hummingbirds on that first postcard?

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  3. Alan BurnettApril 18, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    What a strange image on that last card. They are Forget-me-nots I assume, but what are they in?

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  4. Christine WallaceApril 18, 2011 at 8:19 AM

    Hee Hee, Christine, I find it fitting you open with a "best wishes" postcard just underneath the opening statement about that dreadful word "taxes". How funny and appropriate as some of us may need that blessing around tax time!!!!! Have a beautiful week and I am so happy you love your new jewels I sent you!

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  5. Lisa BApril 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    If it is your birthday today, then Happy Birthday to you :).
    Sweet cards and verse.

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  6. DorincardApril 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM

    These are (overly) joyous postcards, not the trademark of a tormented soul like poor Sylvia...

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  7. Christine H.April 18, 2011 at 1:03 PM

    Mark,
    I think they are supposed to be hummingbirds, but I've never seen any like that.

    Alan,
    Why, it's an upside down Centurion helmet, of course. What else would you put forget-me-nots in?

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  8. JanineApril 18, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    ie Vergissmeinnicht schauen aus, als wären sie in einem Helm.
    Sehr kurios.
    Liebe Grüße
    Janine

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  9. TrishiaApril 18, 2011 at 7:54 PM

    It's not my birthday, but I was gonna try to pass myself off as a GE subsidiary!ha!

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  10. Aimee DarsApril 20, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    I think I'm going to start saying "Birthday Congratulations" instead of "Happy Birthday"! These are beautiful cards!

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