Mrs. J. S. Barnes lived in Marlowe, an unincorporated community Berkeley County of West Virginia.
Marlowe is at the easternmost point of West Virginia, very near the borders of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlowe,_West_Virginia
In December of 1923, Mrs. Barnes received a Christmas postcard from Lester.
Lester was in Winchester, the historic city in the Shenandoah Valley of northwestern Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia
The face of the postcard bears a medallion illustration of a house in winter; a wisp of smoke emerges from the chimney.
Small birds dart across the face.
Beneath the house is a printed inscription which communicates “Love and Best Wishes”.
On the reverse, Lester inscribes a message of “Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes to you all”.
The reverse also contains the 1923 Red Cross Christmas stamp.
One hopes that Mrs. Barnes was pleased by the postcard and that both the Barnes family and Lester enjoyed a wonderful Christmas in 1923.
