My friend Ellen lives in Vermont but always comes to visit every year. This year in February we got talking about my computer/blogging life and her singing/hiking/non-computer life. She began to develop the idea of the “Snail Blog”. She took all the loser left over postcards in the drawer, numbered them from 1 to 100, and started sending them to me, day by day. It has become a fascinating and wonderful experience, a way of knowing her life in tiny (sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, often telling) increments. I’m very sad to report that number 100 arrived today. But let’s look at number 1:
and here we are at 50…half way through:
There were rules. If she added in a card or two between two numbers the new cards were given the “a” or “b” designation:
Some days there would be no cards at all and some days..hooray…maybe 3 would come! And maybe one of them would turn out to be a picture so perfect you could hardly believe it:
Some were “art cards” with paintings:
Some were “scenics”
some were funny:
and today, alas, number 100:


























































