Zoetermeer

This postcard from a 2022 Postcrossing meeting reached me more than two years after it was written. However, this time, the postal services are not to blame...

It was the sender who waited until she get the perfectly matching stamps!

States Project | The Bayou State

I would always associate Louisiana with jazz and carnival. But, as you can see... There is much more there!

Another postcard from Bryon and his States Project.

Windows to the World

This postcard shows a traditional Russian window casing (1, Muzeyny proezd, Alexandrov, Russia). It is an artwork by Vasily Osipovich Zhabin. But the picture was taken by the sender, Eduard, and it won a photo contest for the most beautiful casing in the Vladimir region in 2015 (If I understand well the back of the postcard!). 

For more that ten years, Eduard has been running the mail art project Windows to the World. Maybe you can consider to send a window, too:

Artistic works dedicated to the theme “Windows” are accepted. You can use any painting or other technique. The deadline isn’t established. 

Please, send your “Windows” here: 

Eduard Egorov

Zaozernaya, 45

Alexandrov

Vladimirskaya region

Russia 

601653

Sunday Stamp | Moustaches on Stage

Today's theme on Sunday Stamps is, again, Moustaches. I found some of them, proudly worn by actors.

Christopher Plummer (1929– 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. On the stamp,  the five main roles of his long career.

József Katona (1791–1830) was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy Bánk bán. The stamp shows an engraving from 1845. I ignore the name of the actor.

The Black Adder is a sitcom written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson (on the stamp, without moustache), originally aired on BBC 1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 1983. I guess you know the name of the moustached actor better than me.

Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991. Again, I am sure someone here know the actors.

Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939) was an American actor and filmmaker, known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films.

States Project | The Sunflower State

If you trust the stamps, the name The Sunflower State is very appropriate, because the sunflowers are everywhere. 

However, I would have expected a reference to Dorothy or the Yellow Brick Road on the postcard!

Ça crée des liens

Ça crée des liens entre nous ('It creates links between us') is the new slogan of La Poste (the French postal service). I love it!

How many yellow mail boxes can you count on this hand made envelope sent by Fabienne (France)? One on the street and two more on the stamps.

And still the forth on the postcard inside!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Send Yourself on a Postcard

This is a postcard sent by postcrosser Lara (Germany). It is her own design. She depicted herself doing what she love most: reading books in cafés.

How would you like to appear on a postcard?

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

• Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
• Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
• Week 3 - Markets, cafés
• Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
• Week 5 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Non-Halloween Mail

Actually, cat-related mail. But it includes one of the Halloween USA stamps (from 2019). I am afraid that USPS does not issue any Halloween stamp this year.

And some non-Halloween crows that arrived together, on letters from Catherine (France ) and Laura (the UK):

Halloween Meetup

Heleen (the Netherlands) sent this postcard from a Postcrossing meeting held in Breda last year, with a Halloween theme. It got its own personalised stamp matching with the postcard design:

And an upside down pictorial postmark!

Extraordinary

Envelope sent to Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | The Library

Today's Sunday Stamps goes for Public Buildings. My favourite public buildings are always... libraries!

UNESCO proclaimed 1979  as the International Year of the Child, and Correos issued this cheerful stamp celebrating it. The theme chosen was the library ('La biblioteca'). I have not found information about the illustrator, but I love the design. If you look close, you realise that all the users of the library are children, and a curious timetable on the door.

More stamps dedicated to libraries:

The Wrong Botanist

First day cover from 2013, commemorating the 100th birthday of professor Miklós Ujvárosi issued in 2013. 

Sent by Micu (Hungary).

As a curiosity: in 2003, it was issued a stamp dedicated to another Hungarian botanist, Rezső Soó. The portrait on the stamp, though, did not feature the right man but Miklós Ujvárosi. The stamp was quickly withdrawn, but some of those are still in collections. Some philatelists adore collecting freaks and errors! 

Godrevy

By John Hinde

Unexpectedly, I received this summer two very different postcards featuring the same lighthouse: Godrevy, in Cornwall (the UK). 

Wild Roses and Harbour, by Emma Jeffryes

Sent by Laura and Ania (UK).

(Another one, from last year, here.)

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Irish Pubs

I have read that Irish pubs are very common around the world. Certainly, they are in my country! But, for once, it would be nice to visit a real one... in Ireland!

Sent by Laura (Ireland & UK) and Béibhinn (Ireland).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

• Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
• Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
• Week 3 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee
• Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
• Week 5 - Markets, cafés

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

States Project | The Bluegrass State

Another one for Bryon's States Project. Is it possible to hear "Kentucky" and not to add "FC"? But it seems there is a lot more there.

By the way, notice that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and not in the Land of Lincoln.

Not only two, but three states have the cardinal as state bird!