Year of the Snake (V)

First Day postcard and postmark, sent by Bryon (United Nations).

Daffodils!

 

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

States Project | The Bay State

This postcard belonging to the States Project has made a long journey and even a time travel: it was written on 23 September 2024, only got a postmark on 6 February 2023 (!?). It reached me on 24 March 2025.

I really wanted to get the postcard from the state where the oldest lighthouse in USA was built!

Sunday Stamps | Chequered

Chess is a common topic for philatelists, but I found only these among my received ones. Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Patterns on stamps!

United Kingdom, 1976

France, 1966

And the same pattern in a stamp belonging to the series The Secret of Life. And also apt for the Year of the Snake!

United Kingdom, 2003

Virginias

 

This is a (sort of) postcard made out of chocolates packaging. It was sent to Bryon (the USA) as a reply to yesterday's and this postcard.

States Project | The Mountain State

The postcards of the States Project usually do not arrive alone, and this one came along with its Virginia sister. 

It surprised me to see again the cardinal as the state bird. According to the Wikipedia: "Some state birds are shared between multiple states. Of the 50 states, a total of 32 do not have a unique state bird." The northern cardinal is the bird of seven states (See this map).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Edo

The Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). 

Sent by Noriko (Japan).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
April theme: SPRING

• Week 1 - Spring Flowers
• Week 2 - (Song)Birds
• Week 3 - Easter-y Things
• Week 4 - Gardens

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Books & Roses Day

23 April is Sant Jordi (='Saint George’s Day'), and also the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, when love and literature are celebrated massively throughout the Catalan countries and, more and more, in many other places around the world. The exchange of books and roses (#BooksAndRoses) is turning into a worldwide phenomenon.

I love this day, and I love when snail mail is full of...

Roses

Frist Art Museum
Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

... and Books

The Book Loft
Columbus, Ohio (the USA)

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Emma, Jane Austen

Mail sent by Fabienne (France), Catherine (France), Laura (the UK), Imma (PC) and Phillip (the USA).

States Project | Old Dominion State

I think I would like it more if the nickname of Virginia on the postcard had been Mother of Presidents. Also clearer postmarks and undamaged stamps would have been better welcomed. But the postal machines (or the mail monsters) have no mercy on the poor flag stamps of the States Project!

American Hotels

The famed Lake Yellowstone Hotel dining room was added to the 1891 structure around 1929. Today, the dinning room looks much as it did when it was built.
Sent by Kevin (the USA).

Colonnaded walkways on Windward Avenue frame several of Venice's historic buildings built between 1905 and 1911. Shops, coffee houses and the Venice Beach Hostel occupy two structures at the corner of the Pacific Ave.

Sent by Stephan (the USA).

And remember, if you travel and there is not a postcard available... This is a solution!

Door tag send by Bryon (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Les Trésors de Notre-Dame

Les Trésors de Notre-Dame de Paris (='The Treasures of Notre-Dame of Paris') is a series of (so far?) five stamps issued after the destruction of this cathedral by a terrible fire, on April 15, 2019. 

These are the ones I have got (thanks, Fabienne!), dedicated to the facades, the organs and the great bells.

Les façades de Notre-Dame
July 20, 2020

Les Grandes Orgues de Notre-Dame
April 18, 2022

Les bourdons de Notre-Dame
April 17, 2023

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Churches.

Happy Easter

One in Four

These four envelopes arrived together some time ago, although they were supposed to be spaced-out along one month. They contained a birthday present.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | (Easter) Bunny

Artist: Shupachet Bhumakan

A postcard sent by Bree during a short trip to Thailand last December. It took 20 days to reach me and, as you can imagine, it was not intended for Easter. But... it has a bunny!

Bree went to the post office, paid for the postage and the mail clerk chose and stuck them on himself. He had few room left, so he stuck one stamp on top of the other. 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
April theme: SPRING

• Week 1 - Spring Flowers
• Week 2 - (Song)Birds
• Week 3 - Easter-y Things
• Week 4 - Gardens

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Year of the Snake (IV)

Envelope sent by Phillip (the USA), made of a menu. Very appropriate to celebrate the Year of the Snake!

And with Chinese New Year stamps from previous years: