3731 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

A neat collage of all of Utah's national parks.

Zion National Park - located in south west Utah, near the town of Springdale. It's located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert. The park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. There are 289 species of birds, 75 mammals, and 32 reptiles. The park attracts 5 million visitors (2023) annually.

Canyonlands National Park - located in south east Utah near the town of Moab. It consists of a colourful landscape eroded into canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their tributaries. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the park into law in 1964.

Capital Reef National Park - located in south-central Utah. It is 100 km long and 10 km wide on average. It was established in 1971 to preserved almost 100 000 hectares of desert landscape.

Bryce Canyon National Park - located in south-west Utah. What makes Bryce distinctive is the geographical features called hoodoos.

Arches National Park - located in eastern Utah adjacent to the Colorado River, about 6 km north of Moab. The park contains 2000 natural sandstone arches, the most famous being Delicate Arch.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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