POSTCARD N.184 - U.S.A.

Postcrossing Postcard sent on the 5th June; received on the 23rd June 2025.

Postcard image: Sunrise from Bluewell, West Virginia

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Sunrise and sunset, the quintessential time of the day for the quintessential postcard... every day that passes they are different and sometimes the guy behind the light console is really a master.... seems they have some great light effects experts in Bluewell, West Virginia, too...

Thanks a lot, Laura!

One can never get tired of watching a great sunset or sunrise, no matter what. Those days when all the sky goes red and orange and purple and yellow and all the shades in between of an outstanding palette of warm and cool colours are days to remember, especially if you have a camera with you.... I know it, I've shot many a sunset and a sunrise, and I never get tired of it!

No matter how many times we've seen it , this is an image that will enrapture, inspire awe, exhilarate and motivate many other positive sensations that will make you feel somehow connected to the ground below your feet and the sky up there on the horizon... cheesy as it might sound...

Piñatas originated in Iberia, although I can't remember ever being present at a party where someone would break the festively wrapped container with a bat so as to liberate the sweets inside (although I do have a recollection of seeing it on TV somewhere in Portugal, during some local festivities, where it is (was?) customary to break a clay jar with something inside...)

Following the Portuguese and Spanish colonisation, Piñatas were  imported into South America from where they made their way into the USA.

I don't know if Piñatas are traditional in the upper  States, but I think that at least in those States that share a border with Mexico, they made their way into the local usage.

On 08SEP2023 USPS issued a four stamp set (Forever USA) dedicated to this tradition. Two of the stamps can be seen on the postcards. 

The third stamp, also a "Forever USA" issue, began to circulate on 26APR2025 as part of a 10 stamp set dedicated to Dahlias, that beautiful garden flower  native from Mexico and which has become very popular amongst garden lovers as illustrated by this quote form Wikipedia: "There are now more than 57,000 registered cultivars".

The mechanical obliteration was applied at Charleston, the capital of the State of West Virginia.