Maybe you see twisted minds around you all the time - see here some twisted heart shapes. Non-traditional MAXICARDS that I made with folded cards ("greeting cards"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from West Nyack, NY and Los Angeles, CA (the metropolis formerly known as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River)")

Non-traditional MAXICARD that I made with a folded card ("greeting card"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from West Nyack, NY.

Non-traditional MAXICARD that I made with a folded card ("greeting card"), about YOTH (Year of the Hare). Pictorial postmarks from Los Angeles, CA (the metropolis formerly known as "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River)") 

I see 3 heart shapes...do you?

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.A white collar, and 2 grey ones, created by the hind legs. :)

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See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011

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Cute non-traditional MAXICARD with a greeting card showing 2 small rabbits in deep snow. Infamous kumquats stamp and nice Year of the Hare (YOTH) pictorial postmark from West Nyack, New York

Cute non-traditional MAXICARD with a greeting card showing 2 small rabbits in deep snow. Infamous kumquats stamp and nice Year of the Hare (YOTH) pictorial postmark from West Nyack, New York.

See also: http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=yoth

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LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011

LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). Another one of my non-traditional MAXIMUM CARDS with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I? Pictorial postmark from Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2011.

All domestic LEPORIDS are rabbits.

The one above has flaccid downward ears.

The wild ones, rabbits and hares - don't.

What happens when a heart shape elongates its lobes? Won't it resemble a hare head shape, with upward ears? Find it in the above image.

If not, I'll find it for ya.

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

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Who framed this rabbit (or hare)? A greeting card company, that's who. Blue frame. My YOTH (Year of the Hare) non-traditional maxicard, kumquats and all...

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"...Tu ne me manques pas du tout, du tout!" says the weeping bunny with translucent pink ears. My Year of the Rabbit / Hare: maximum card (with a postmark not very clear), and a folded card that I show you as the companion/reference item for that type of postmark

Whenever you get a pictorial postmark, get also that postmark on a companion/reference item, with a surface more paper-like than the glossy surface of a modern postcard.

I like the highly-embossed surface of this card.

This is a folded card, a type of  "postcard support" that FIP CfM does NOT allow you to use in creating a maximum card.

What do I think?

1 -  I can cut it in half anytime, if I so desire. 

Then it really looks like a custom postcard.

But I prefer to keep it that way - maybe I'll get more items like that from the source specified on the back of the folded card. :)

2 - I can cut it in half anytime, if a future potential partner/buyer so desires.

3 - if anybody will ever get this, he or she can cut it, or keep it just like that, or send it as an "enriched" greeting card, unique in the world as it really is.

3 - for the postmarking Post Office, this was a revenue generator, without further work necessary from a delivery mailman. 

It will not require postal delivery to anybody's mailbox, per se (not as is, "naked").

All the similar items that I requested on this occasion (postcards, folded cards, covers) were delivered to me in 1 SASE that I provided in the initial cover that I sent for this postmarking event.

It's not a postcard, and not a cover - just a philatelic "page"/souvenir. 

I gladly relinquished a stamp for the privilege of obtaining that desired postmark. 

Everybody is happy, except maybe the purists. :)

4 - could things have been better?

Sure!

If (some) maximaphily purists would argue that the stamp actually depicts some stupid  fruits [:) my wording is enhanced for entertainment purposes only; no fruit or person is REALLY stupid]  [kumquats], and therefore this YOTH (Year of the Hare) symbolic stamp design DOES NOT qualify for concordance of subject in a maximum card...then I'd say: well, you DO have a point.

As I said before, it blows my mind why a hare is NOT the primary graphic element here, in this USPS stamp.

Why don't you, USPS, instruct your designers to focus primarily on the animal in the "Year of the..."?

Leave other symbols, non-specific for that year, in the background!

Are kumquats eaten ONLY during the Year of the Hare?

What do you concoct next?

Year of the Chopsticks?

:)

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At ABC Wednesday Meme, today is letter L, as in LEPORIDS (RABBITS and HARES). My non-traditional MAXIMUM CARD with YOTH (Year of the Hare), from USA, made with a folded card which I can "postcardize" anytime, should I want. Should I?

Eastern Cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus

Notice the different postmark than the one above, for the  same folded card with Eastern Cottontail, (Sylvilagus floridanus) 

"Leporids are the approximately 50 species of rabbits and hares which form the family Leporidae. The leporids, together with the pikas, constitute the mammalian orderLagomorpha. Leporids differ from pikas in having short furry tails, and elongated ears and hind legs. The name leporid is simply an abbreviation of the family name Leporidae meaning animals resembling "lepus", Latin for hare.

Members of all genera except Lepus are usually referred to as rabbits, while members of Lepus (which accounts for almost half the species) are usually called hares. However the distinction between these two common names does not map completely into current taxonomy, since jackrabbits are members of Lepus, and members of the genera Pronolagus and Caprolagus are sometimes called hares.

Leporids are native across the world except Antarctica, and in Oceania where their introduction is a significant threat for the native mammals in Australia. ."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporidae

See my previous blogpost about the differences between RABBITS and HARES:

http://dorincard.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-1-whats-difference-between-rabbits.html

Today is letter L here:

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