A hand-colored Edwardian postcard presents a sun-warmed Alpine village street in Meiringen, Switzerland — the distinctive detached Romanesque church tower (originally part of a medieval castle) anchoring the left, while timber chalets, a rushing mountain stream, and a dramatic cascading waterfall tumbling down forested cliffs fill the scene with the romance that made Swiss landscape cards among the most-collected of the early 1900s. Postmarked Portland, N.Y., October 19, 1910, this card carries a wonderfully candid message from a woman to her sister: she's feeling fine, the grape harvest finished on the 17th, the weather is warm enough to sit on the porch in the evening "like August," cotton picking is underway, and she's waiting eagerly for a letter — a window into rural American life alongside a European Alpine idyll. The rare 1¢ Benjamin Franklin green stamp anchors the philatelic interest.