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Noah picks up other people's trash. Sometimes he finds things he likes.

Last week I made a post on here all about my new job as a junk removal guy. I'd like to call it a glorified garbage man of sorts. Basically, I drive around in a big truck all over the Seattle area, occasionally picking up different customers junk, and then taking it to different dumps and recycling facilities. It's a weird premium service, I suppose. We get rid of remodeling waste, to broken futons, to big screen TV's, to whole garages full of crap. Sometimes we get rid of it just because rich people are too lazy to load their ex-elliptical trainer into an SUV and take it themselves.

In a post I made last week, I showed off a bunch of found photos I saved from a clean up in Normandy Park. A well traveled elderly man and his daughter were cleaning out his garage, and for some reason didn't mind throwing them all out. At the same place, I was also able to gather up a few scrap books full of postcards they had been saving since atleast the early 70's. Some were sent to them by friends, and others they picked up at gift shops on their own. For this post, I'd like to show you those.

Here's one from the '74 Worlds Fair in Spokane, WA.

The one above is from Boy Scout Cave, which is at Craters of the Moon National Monument, ID.

This one below is some Christian propaganda in the form of a postcard.

The one with the shoe is from Never Never Land, at Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA. This morning on the news there was a grizzly story about some 14 yr. old kid falling in the rapids and drowning... Freaky.

The postcard above is a picture of Stockholm, and was sent out sometime in eary August, 1973. The letter speaks of traveling through Holland, N. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, of the amazing fields carved out of the rocks and trees, and how inexpensive things are there. One of my roomies, KAP, visited there once and says that the picture is from the old town square before it expanded. He says it pretty much looks the same now as it did back then.

This other one is of a hand colored photograph made from an original old (1901) glass negative, and is a picture of Brave Wolf and his wife in Montana.

That one is from Peteren Rock Gardens in central Oregon, but I remember seeing somthing similar to it on a trip I took to Mt. Rushmore as a kid. I know a black light is what makes them glow like that, but I'm not sure of the science behind it. If any of you sweet nerds reading this knows, feel free to leave a comment explaining how.

That's another one from Craters of the Moon National Monument. It's called a "Horizontal Tree Mold" and is caused by trees falling and making an impression on the putty-like surface of cooling lava.

This postcard is prolly the oldest one sent out, dated 2-5-71. I didn't know it until I read the postcard, but it says that the mormans gave this giant yucca the name Joshua Tree or the "praying plant" because of it's up-stretched "arms." It also says that the trunk has no annual rings, so it's impossible to determine their age.

Speaking of mormans, somehow my mom is one, and served a full mission in Peru during the early 80's. Coincidently, that's where this postcard is from.

About two weeks ago I ate some mushrooms and went camping on Orcas Island for a few nights. It had some really great trails and campsites, but the town is totally weird. One thing I noticed was that the locals must get really poor cellphone reception there, cuz I noticed everyone only talking on them at one certain grocery store parking lot. I'm thinking it must have been the "hot spot." There's also a really creepy country club there, which is where the below postcard came from back in the day. Visit the place. It's a trip! Atleast my trip was trippy...

I don't know if you've read about my plans to travel the country this summer, but I've been searching all over for things to do while I'm on the road for the 2 1/2 months. I keep drawing up new and revised maps, and am still unsure of my coarse, but this picture of Casa Grande Ruins in Coolidge, AZ is one of the places I've been thinking of checking out. Any of you reading this been there before?

I really love that sawmill one. The one right above is the same as the one right below, and is the only one with a child's handwriting. It has to be about 40+ years and written by the elderly man's daughter.

Those are musk oxen from Collage, Alaska, and down there is a giraffe in it's not so native habitat, the Woodland Park Zoo. The zoo is prolly less then 5 minutes away from me, but for some reason every time I try to go out there, my plans are thwarted by long hours as a garbage man. I did go to the Olympic Game Farm yesterday though, which is way interesting. I'm not sure if it'd be a waste of space to blog about it here on FecalFace though, cuz all my pictures are of buffalo shit and of yaks eating 5 slices of bread at a time... Lemme know if you guys wanna see that. Oh yeah, I have one picture of peacocks fucking, too.

This has got to be one of the weirdest postcards ever. I counted atleast 28 dead polar bears and a bunch of random seals and snow foxes littered within the mix. Gross. This one came from On the Border of the Bear Country, Museum Quality Taxidermy by Jonas Bros. of Seattle, Inc. What's up with Seattle and it's over abundance of inhumane postcards?

This postcard is a panoramic shot of the Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. It's about 11"x3.5", and the last three poastcards below this are all 9"x6.5" . This one is of Minerva Terrace, Mammoth, Yellowstone National Park.

This is of Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

The last one I have here is so far the only one I've reused. I sent it out with a package to my baby brother, Bennifer, for his 11th b-day. He got a copy of "The Giver," some mixed CD's, an Edward Gorey book, and the card. I think I did alright. The card's a picture of Morning Glory Pool, at Yellowstone. I've never been there, but I guess he has. It looks amazing!

If you'd like to know anything else about the postcards, feel free to leave a comment down below and I'll try to get back to you with some interesting facts from behind the card. Also, let us know if you've been to any of these places. Share some stories, seriously!