Monthly Fav. Surprise RR - January '24

New Year usually bring new habits and resolutions but when it comes to forum RR's and tags, I'm stick to my old and favorites ones.

 

 Leo Seidel

My collection of street art cards keeps growing. This one from Berlin was sent by Katja.

The best-known graffiti in the so-called “Curvy wasteland” are the two large-scale façade pictures (“murals”) by the Italian street artist BLU at the edge of a long-unused building plot. In 2007 BLU created two white figures who are trying to look under each other’s mask; in 2008 he added a headless figure wearing chained-together watches on its wrists. Both recall the incipient commercialization and difficulties of the coalescing Berlin of the post-Wall period. The area of approximately 12,000 square metres was part of a controversial building project and the object of repeated urban political clashes. The premises were used in the meantime as temporary living space and then cleared in 2014 after a fire. In protest against Berlin’s urban development policy, and fearing the co-opting of his art by the future owner of the property, BLU had the mural painted over in black in December 2014. In January 2017, construction work began for an office complex on the site. - in: https://www.goethe.de

 Snowy view of Qin Huai River in Nanjing, China, sent by Yifan.

Qin Huai River, a branch of the great Yangtze, is 110 kilometers in length and pass through the urban area of Nanjing. As the largest river in the area around Nanjing, Qin Huai River is called the "lifeblood" of the city. - in: https://www.chinadiscovery.com

 

Another beautiful view from China. The stamps Lynn used are also worth to mention. 

Jiuzhaigou Valley, or Jiuzhaigou National Park is located in northern Sichuan province. It is known as “the Most Beautiful Waterscape in China”, Word Natural Heritage Site, “Fairytale Land”, 5A National Park. All people who have been to Jiuzhaigou know all these reputation match the reality. It is even regarded as the “Paradise for Photographers”.
Water is the soul of Jiuzhaigou, and waters in the high-altitude mountain range are much clearer and diverse in forms. Over 108 lakes, 3 groups of waterfalls is the biggest highlight of Jiuzhaigou. - in: https://www.chinadiscovery.com

Ruovesi's local open-air museum is set around a collection of 18th-century farm buildings and includes a simple farmer's house.

Card sent by Minna.