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• Penny's Nature Mandala Art

  By Penny Locke| Penny Post@ Gingkos are the oldest tree species on the planet. Tough and resistant to disease and insects, they date back 60 million years before the dinasours and were called ‘living fossils’ by Darwin. Six gingko trees were among the very few plants to survive the bombing of Hiroshima. Although almost all other plants (and animals) in the area were killed, the ginkgos, though charred, survived and were soon healthy again, and are still alive today.

  By Penny Locke · Penny Post

  Oct. 21, 2021

• The Symbolism of Poppies

  By Penny Locke| Penny Post@ Why is the poppy used as a symbol of remembrance? The battle scenes of WW1 reduced previously beautiful landscapes of Western Europe to bleak, barren, muddy wastelands. The notable and striking exception to the bleakness were the swathes of bright red poppies that flourished in Flanders. These delicate yet surprisingly resilient flowers inspired a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, to write the poem In Flander’s Fields in memory of a friend of his who was killed at Ypres.

  By Penny Locke · Penny Post

  Nov. 03, 2019

• Penny's Nature Mandala Art

  By Penny Locke| Penny Post@ Gingkos are the oldest tree species on the planet. Tough and resistant to disease and insects, they date back 60 million years before the dinasours and were called ‘living fossils’ by Darwin. Six gingko trees were among the very few plants to survive the bombing of Hiroshima. Although almost all other plants (and animals) in the area were killed, the ginkgos, though charred, survived and were soon healthy again, and are still alive today.

  By Penny Locke · Penny Post

  Oct. 21, 2021

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Penny Post

We specialize in wedding invitations, stationery goods, and gifts to make the world a little brighter. Inspired by the art of personal correspondence, the power of the written word, the smell of freshly printed things, the eclectic and the classic, the handmade, the everyday and once-in-a-lifetime celebrations, Penny Post reconnects us to what matters most: each other.