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Monday, March 03, 2025

Anasazi World - Dewitt Jones and Linda Cordell

A photo book with text by Linda Cordell. Brief as the text was, I enjoyed it a lot more than the photography. Though many of the photos were quite attractive, there were equally as many in which it was difficult for me to see the ruins.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Postmark of the Day - Sidney West Letter Facility, Australia - 27 February 2024

Sidney West Letter Facility, Australia, on 27 February 2024.

The CFCP stands for Culler Facer Canceller Preparation. This is the kind of letter processing machine used for small envelopes. A marking of FSM would indicate Flat Sorting Machine, used for larger letters.

Link to The Stamp Forum post.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Postmark of the Day - Briefzentrum 47 (Duisburg), Germany 10 March 2023

Post on TSF

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Postmark of the Day - Norwich Mail Center, 24 January 2022

Holocaust Memorial Day / Light a candle / in your window / pm 27 January 2022 / hmd.org.uk

Royal Mail / Norwich / Mail Centre / 24-01-2022 / 24000015

Link to post on The Stamp Forum: https://thestampforum.boards.net/post/185380

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Moontrap - Don Webb

From my Goodreads entry for this book:

Moontrap, The Coast of Oregon, 1850... by Don Berry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When I bought this, at the Book Exchange in Missoula, I thought that I was getting myself a light western set on the Oregon Coast. It turned out to be much more than that, and I've since learned that Berry was a respected and serious writer.
I must admit it took me a while to get into it, perhaps because I found the writing style a bit irritating and the characters unsympathetic. But as I got further in I started appreciating the writing more, and empathizing with the various old trappers having trouble fitting in to a world of more law and order. And it just got more and more enjoyable until the rather tough ending.

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