Bodie Island

The current Bodie Island Lighthouse stands 48 m tall, and is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It was renovated from 2009 to 2013, and was made climbable by the public. There are 219 steps that spiral to the top. It is one of only a dozen remaining tall, brick tower lighthouses in the United States — and one of the few with an original first-order Fresnel lens to cast its light.

I really like receiving different postcards of the same lighthouse, with photographs taken in different light. This way I can get a better idea of ​​the place.

Postcards send by Marina, Ilyse and Mim (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Rance, Loire, Tees

Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in north-western France. The town overlooks the Rance valley, which has not been freely connected to the sea since the construction of the Rance Tidal Power Station dam.

Banks of the Loire, issued in 2007. The stamp belongs to the series Portraits de régions N° 9 - La France à voir.

As the River Tees comes hurtling down from its North Pennines source, it plunges about 21 metres over an almost vertical cliff. After heavy rain, the peat-laden river splits, forming two falls divided by a protruding buttress, but even this rock can be covered in exceptional weather. England’s most powerful waterfall in terms of volume, High Force is slowly moving upstream as it erodes the sedimentary rocks beneath the Whin Sill – the hard-wearing layer of rock over which the River Tees initially flows.

For more Rivers on stamps, visit Sunday Stamps.

Summer Mail XI | Warm Hugs

Mini-letter and envelope illustrated by Erica Fustero. It might be that I buy her postcards and zines to receive them inside one of her illustrated envelopes... (Like this one and this one).

Women on Postcards | M Is for Madame Moustache

Postcard made and sent by Fabienne (France).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Tasmanian Boats

Postcard sent by Eeyoreinoz (Australia).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING

• Week 1 - Trains
• Week 2 - Boats
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Buses, Cars

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Too Many Letters Waiting to be Answered...

Etc.

(You know who you are.)

Wedding

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Teapots

Received from Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Mountains & Volcano

Piton de la Fournaise (='Peak of the Furnace') is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island, a French overseas department and region, in the Indian Ocean. With a height of 2621, it is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands, Stromboli and Etna in Italy and Mount Erebus in Antarctica. Stamp issued in 2025.

1993 stamp featuring mixed coniferous and broadleaf forest in the Changbai Mountains. Most of ithe peaks of this mountain range exceed 2,000 m in height. The second stamps, from 2000, features Shibao mountain, in Dali (Yunnan Province). It is 3038 m high. 

1984 stamp featuring Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada. The Reserve includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 metres).

2026 stamp honouring the 150th anniversry of Colorao Statehood. It features a photograph of Jagged Mountain, located in the Weminuche Wilderness area of the San Juan National Forest. 

Inside this envelope sent by Phillip (USA), there was a postcard with a map of the state of Colorado, the shape of which has always fascinated me.

Today you can see more Mountains on stamps going to Sunday Stamps.

Postbox Saturday | "My" Postbox

The post box which has gone through all kind of calamities has finally been placed back on the sidewalk opposite. Just in front of my current workplace, which is very convenient.  I must add that it is not in very good condition: no logo, damaged paint, a little rusty... I hope it lasts a long time anyway!

Women on Postcards | F Is for Family

On this postcard, several (female and male) members of painter Salvador Dalí's family.

Postcard sent by Imma (PC).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Old Trains

I have not received any postcards with trains recently, so I am re-posting old ones...

Dampflokomotive Nr. 30 (1904)
(Germany)

Dampflokomotiven Nr. ZRS 422 0108
MÁV 22.034 und CSD 313 432 in Zvolen AM 11
(Hungary)

Nova Gorica Railway Station and Večnamenska locomotive (1944)
(Slovenia)

The Locomotve No. 23
(United States)

And remember...

Sent by Yvonne (Germany), Bertalan (Hungary), Jože (Slovenia), Catherine (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING

• Week 1 - Trains
• Week 2 - Boats
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Buses, Cars

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Second Try

It came out better on the second try...

Summer Mail X | Sea Bath

 

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

The Mail Adventures of the Smelling Roses

On 14 May, Correos issued this stamp dedicated to the 70th anniversary of a Rose Garden in the Parque del Oeste (='West Park') in Madrid.

I bought a 7-stamps set like this one, the surprise was that it smelled like roses! So, I used the sheet to add some sweet scent to letters to Portugal, the UK and the USA:

And now, for the odd mail adventures: two of them were posted on 14 July, but got postmarks on 22 July. The third one was posted on 16 July in the same mailbox and postmarked the following day, 17 July. How do you explain that?

And still an extra mail adventure for the one I sent to the UK: it arrived open (meh!) but luckily nothing was lost in way. And it got two postmarks, from Correos (22 July) and Royal Mail (25 July).