"Down East"

Very interesting! Here's the text of the postcard in case it is hard to read:

"One of the most asked questions of the Maine tourist has to do with the term "Down East." It would seem that inasmuch as Maine is north of the rest of the country, "down" is a contradiction of terms. In early times, it turns out, the state was generally reached from Boston and other points by sailing vessel. Since the prevailing wind is westerly, travelers sailed down wind to Maine, creating the local term, "going down to Maine" or "down east". 

www.visitmaine.com

Received May 16, 2011.

Theatrical Building in China

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozhou_City

The stamp on the right matches the postcard!

Utrecht, Netherlands

Utrecht, the fourth largest city in the Netherlands!

www.utrecht.nl/smartsite.dws?id=13353

Iowa...where you can hear the corn grow!

www.iowacorn.org

www.iowa.gov

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa

Nice stamps!

A Louisiana Plantation Home

Historic Houmas House

River Road, Burnside, Louisiana

"The magnificent Greek revival plantation was built by Colonel John Smith Preston on land originally inhabited by the Houmas Indians. Mrs. Preston was the daughter of General White Hampton. Dr. and Mrs. Crozat acquired the property in 1940, and have restored it to its original splendor."

Stamp and postmark.

Dairy cows in Vermont

Holstein cows and Queen Anne's Lace in a "typical" summer Vermont setting. These cows look pretty content!

Tomsk, Siberia, Russia

Description on the back of the card: "The manors of Zaistochie: the late nineteenth-century manor built by P.F. Fedorovsky and S.V. Khomich in Ulitsa Tatarskaya, 44".

Tomsk is a city on the Tom River in the western part of Siberia.