Thawing Ice

Sender: Vsteers
T is for THAWING ICE!
A view of Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Breathtaking!

Winter Ship

Sender: Benno
Winter Ship

St Basil's Cathedral in Winter

Sender: Vsteers
St Basil's Cathedral coated by snow in wintertime.

Barefooted in the Snow

Sender: Silvia

A beautiful card but I am not sure whether it depicts a fairy tale or just the winter season? The girl is bare-footed in the snow.

A Rural Winter

Sender: Catherine
A beautiful painting by naive art artist Denis Bauquier, invoking the nostalgia of rural life in his childhood days.

Ahwahnee Hotel

Sender: SssharonL
The Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, California

Text on card:-

The rustic and memorable Ahwahnee Hotel designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, was completed in 1927. Its rock face blends in with the valley's granite walls and lights of evening cast a warm glow. The Ahwahnee Hotel was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

White Trees

Sender: Chiara64
White trees in a wintry landscape. So beautiful..

A Bird's Winter

Sender: nvpsv
Illustrated by Alena Kudryashava, 2011

Trees in Winter

Sender: nvpsv

Canfran-Candanchú

Sender: Nordbaer

Canfran-Candanchú (Huesca)

Winter season in the heart of the Pyrenees

Tobazo lifts and tracks

Long Red Beanie

Sender: Sasha & Sveta

That is one real long red beanie she is wearing for winter! I can't read the name of the artist but the style is distinctive.

Winter Grouse & Snowy Trees

Sender:  Anna

Trees covered in snow and winter grouse.

Hyvää Uutta Vuotta!

Sender: Sisko

Hyvää Uutta Vuotta!

That's "Happy New Year!" in Finnish!! Love this card, love all Inge Löök's work!

Bunny In The Snow

Sender: Jet

Bunny in the snow alert! :D

A Snowbally Snowman

Sender: Myliu_Lietuva

Best winter greetings from Ieva!

White Tower, Thessaloniki

Sender: Nikos8109

Thessaloniki: Snow in the White Tower area

(A monument and museum on the waterfront of the city)

Catching Snowflakes With Your Tongue

Sender: Le_vik

A painting by a Ukrainian artist, Evgenia Gapchinska

(An unknown artist to me, I'm so glad Le-vik introduced her work as I definitely love this card!)

"Winter is the king of showmen

Turning tree stumps into snow men

And houses into birthday cakes

And spreading sugar over lakes

Smooth and clean and frosty white

The world looks good enough to bite

That’s the season to be young

Catching snowflakes on your tongue

Snow is snowy when it’s snowing

I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going"

-Ogden Nash, Winter Morning Poem

Have you done this before? Catching snowflakes with your tongue?

From Wikihow.com: How to catch a snowflake in your mouth:-

1) Spot a nice sized snowflake and focus on it. Stay focused on one until it's in your mouth and you can go after another.

2) Open your mouth as wide as it can go, without dislocating your jaw.
3) Don't close your mouth. If you do you will probably end up losing your train of thought and besides, you know what's going to happen, the snowflake is going to melt in your mouth.
4) Then keep your tongue out and watch it melt!

'Tis The Holiday Season

Sender: Phuleshouse

A X'mas fairy amidst the holly berries

A RAS X'mas card in support of Covenant House Vancouver (crisis shelter)

Pysy Pystyssä

Sender: Soilis

Pysy Pystyssä (Stay Erect/Standing Upright)

A safety campaign to promote pedestrian safety in winter.

Skiers in the White Valley

Sender: Gaël
Text on card: "Skieurs Au Passage Des Séracs Dans La Vallée Blance"
Translated: Skiers passing seracs in the white valley (I think?)

Can you see the itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie skiers on the right side of the card? Eeee....I would not dare be like them and ski down the steep valley/slope/hill/ whatever! (As if I could ski!?!) And if I did, I would have left my tummy and bravado way up at the start and went all the way down yelling for my mother, (and perhaps triggering an avalanche! No!). 

Therefore, to save all the skiers in any ski steep slopes, Lufra has Magnanimously Decided Not To Venture in such extreme sports.  :-D

The sender himself, I presume! A happy Postcrosser!  :D

And this sticker, it made me laugh! :D