Palm Tree Dreams

Month of Daily Downloads No. 25

I often hear Dr. Seus when I work with postcards. I hear him say, "Oh, the places you'll go!" I can get a batch of French postcards and before I know it, I've gone around the world, traveled back in time and taken in a few history lessons. Like this card. In among a batch of "French" postcards, it is a gorge in a place called El Kantara in Algeria, a former French "colony" -- a euphemistic word for when one country invades another to pillage and plunder it..... Looking up El Kantara on Wiki, the first thing I saw was a photo just like my postcard (almost). I clicked on the pic and ended up back in America at the Library of Congress:

Now, my postcard is unused and so not dated, but the Library of Congress identifies this as a photo taken in 1899. Me thinks the "photo retoucher" in the Paris print shop did a little 'tweaking' of that palm in the postcard photo:)
The reason I wanted to share this image is because, spurred by my own dreams of swaying palm trees, trade winds and sun rays, I thought you might like to use this as a background for your own tropical dreams! I'm going to start collecting "background" postcards and turning them into collage sheets. Another item on my To Do list.
Now, back to the Library of Congress -- there are many copyright-free images you can access on this site. Here's my favorite I discovered on Pinterest:

Do you know who this hunk of a man is? I'll give you a hint. In A Movable Feast, he wrote: "We ate very cheaply in an Algerian restaraunt and I liked the food and the Algerian wine."