The view from Alcatraz, this is what you'd need to swim across to get away.

I had a lot of fun poking through this site, reading about all of the escape attempts over the years. Victoria, who sends me all my Alcatraz cards, was right in pointing out that no one ever really made a clean getaway. The closest were a few that are unaccounted for...

The back says, "Throughout the federal prison years, 1934-1963, the men incarcerated in U.S.P. Alcatraz endured a restrictive daily schedule of endless headcounts and constant observation. Work assignments, reading material, and family visits were privileges, not rights, and were taken away upon violation of any of the numerous rules."

I'm thinking I should tell the kids this is the rule here, too, what do you think? ;-)

Our Lady of Guadalupe. I love stained glass windows, and I love Catholic saints, so this one is extra special!

Another upcycled Christmas card.

An empty cell at Alcatraz Prison. I can see how you'd want to swim to freedom.

The sender of this postcard says she is a mail carrier, and that Swap-Bot is like job security for her! I'm going to keep doing my part :-)

The sender says this postcard reminds her of a day last year when she and her daughter traveled to see the butterflies, and there were 5,000 of them! That's got to be something to see!

It's not obvious, but this one's an oversize card. Most are 4x6, but this one is 4x9! The photographer is Thea Schrack, according to the back of the card. I'm going to have to look for more of her work, this is lovely!

This one looks really nice right now when everything here is cold and brown!

A pretty watercolor from Simi Valley California!

This one can go with my earlier Alcatraz postcard!

It features:
Bootlegging Gangster Al "Scarface" Capone

Bank Robber/Kidnapper George "Machine Gun" Kelly

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Robert "Birdman" Stroud, who never actually kept birds at Alcatraz. He did raise and keep them at Leavenworth, though

This is a result of a fun game at the Postcrossing Forums called "UYI, Use Your Imagination." You got to choose a series of any three letters, and the next person had to send you a postcard filling those initials. The person before me left "G. U. G." and I sent her a card of the Denver Capitol Building (ie Gray Under Gold, for the granite walls and gold dome.)

Then I left the letters R. A. C. for the next person and this is what I got. She sent "Retro And Current." Pretty clever, huh? It's San Francisco's Chinatown.

Alcatraz, how cool is that?

This is the first "Ad Card" I've received! Also from the "White Postcard" swap. It's for the Acela Express route on the Amtrak, that goes from Boston to Washington D.C.