Olympic Taeqwondo

Olympic Taeqwondo, Barcelona 1992

Taeqwondo was a "demonstration sport" during the 1992 games.

It was introduced during the 1988 games in Korea. It became a

full medal sport during the games in Australia, Sydney 2000.

Olympic Hockey

Olympic Field Hockey, Barcelona 1992

Olympic Boxing

Olympic Boxing, Barcelona 1992

Olympic Basketball

Olympic Basketball, Barcelona 1992

Olympic Surfing!!!

Surfing FINALLY will become an Olympic Sport
for Tokyo 2020
(thank you sufertoday.com)

Olympic Baseball

Oympic Baseball, Barcelona 1992

Olympic Kayaking

Olympic Kayaking, Barcelona Olympics 1992

Olympic Archery

Olympic Archery, Barcelona Olympics 1992

Olympic Weightlifting

Olympic Weightlifting, Barcelona 1992

Olympic Tennis

Tennis, Olympics 1992, Barcelona 

Olympic Sailing

Sailing, 1992 Olympic Poster from Barcelona

Summertime was Summertime 2015

Summertime was summertime and living was a bit 'too' easy.  Laguna Susi Q, company came, Hawai'i trip with my daughter Marion of the University of Hawai'i, MidSummer break in SoCal and then August in Seattle for a fun family wedding and reunions with just a bit of work online.  Drove from Tacoma to Portland Oregon with my sister and her husband to hear our family history stories from an incredibly sharp 94 year old who grew up living next to our Wimberg grandparents.  Vivid memories and great story telling! Met her, Selma Voss, for the first time. Such a buzz.  Found her because of a comment I made on facebook. When my name appeared during May on a the computer screen of a man, Selma's son-in-law, in Oregon, he wrote and asked if I was from the Wimbergs of Southern NJ. Then told me about his mother-in-law who had great memories of a great family. Thanks to him we have great details of our family history.

Will be getting back in the flow of writing after a summer of jumping around the USA. In order to help jump back, I got out my old posters from 1992.  Aired them out and photographed them. This is one of many of my favorites from the The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Barcelona, Olympics 1992

Cool jump, aye?

Olympic Watches

Had a look at the Apple watches last week.  Very spiffy, functional and fun. Such CLEVER design. Would love to have one some day.  So had to take a second look at the Olympic watches from Swatch.

Swatch watches with such clever Olympic design!

Beijing 2008 Olympic Stamp, One World One Dream

Somehow the line at the postal station inside Beijing's
Olympic Park was not long at all...so here I am folks!
(Have to say, while waiting in Olympic lines I have
totally enjoyed chatting and meeting fabulous folks.)

Ahhh presentation! This is the cover design that was
protecting the above stamps. Clever aye?
 And so goes life where FORM should follow FUNCTION!

Sydney 2000 Paralympic Stamps

Just mention Paralympics to those who stay and cheer these super athletes on
and most will "talk story" with happy and heartfelt  tears in their eyes.
Bravo to them all and bravo to the designer of these stamps!

Sydney 2000, Olympic Stamp

This Olympic stamp captures the magic of 

movementof the Olympic Flame and the Olympic Flag.

Always manages to magically move...all of us Olympic regulars!

Olympic Torch Post Cards, 1984

The Olympic Torch, everyone's favorite!

Olympic Post Cards, First Day of Issue 1983, Los Angeles 1984

I read about upcoming First Day Issue post cards in a 

small article in the newspaper during July of 1983.

During the former three Olympic Games, Mexico 68, Munich 72 and

Montreal 76, I was single, the world was my home. My son was born

while we were living in Laguna Beach in 1979 so Korea was

impossible for me to attend. My daughter was born in1981.

Loved my babies but oh how I missed the exciting games.

Then  alleluia, the Olympics came...to me in 1984!

These post cards were issued and distributed at the Long Beach

Post Office in 1983. prior to the 1984 games. All three of us made had

an adventurous day driving to Long Beach to purchase some.

They remain my favorite. Great for trading.

Love sailing, love this design!