Lange Briefe schreiben

«[...]

Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.»

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Herbsttag"

(See translations of the poem here.)

Collaged Envelopes

(Front)

(Back)

Collages made by Rugilè (Lithuania), Rosemary (Canada), Imma (PC) and John (UK).

Inside & Outside

It had been long time since I got a couple of inside & outside pair of postcards from the same place!

Put a Lot of Stamps on Your Letters!

 Sometimes I enjoy doing that. Even more if I find matching stamps, like on the green letter below!

Letters sent to Laura (the UK), Phillip (the USA) and Sandra (Serbia).

Very Different Drawing-Style Postcards

The Tale of Petter Rabbit
By Beatrix Potter

The Senses
Samin Nosrat & Wendy MacNaughton

Berzsenyi Dániel Emlékház

Postcards sent by Morag (the UK),  Bryon (the USA) and Micu (Hungary).

Hot-Air Letter

 Envelope sent to Imma (PC).

Getting Beautiful Envelopes

Letters sent by Pina (Belgium) and Laura (the UK).

Nada que celebrar

Envelope sent to Phillip (the USA), made of stamps packaging.

The letter arrived with only ONE stamp on it!

Sunday Stamps | Šaltibarščiai

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Autumn/Harvest/Food. I choose the food part... but summer food.

This Lithuanian stamps features the Šaltibarščiai or Cold Borscht, a soup made of beet juice which has a distinctive and appealing pink or magenta colour. The stamp was issued on 19 June 2020, as part of the Culinary Heritage series.

Many of One Thing

A category of postcards I discovered thanks to Postcrossing is the "many of one thing" or "multiple" postcards. I always find this kind of postcards highly entertaining and educational!

Fashion Timeline of Chinese Clothing

The Kings of France 

Seaweeds of Britain

Postcards sent by Cherry (China), Steve (France) and Laura (the UK).

Lighthouses Galore

Envelope made by Fabienne (France), out of a calendar sheet. It features Cap Fréhel lighthouse in Bretagne (France), and another French lighthouse on the matching stamp: Dunkirk. 

The letter contained two more lighthouses in the form of beautiful postcards:

Isabelle Xefoie

Peggy's Cove (Canada)

Postcard with matching stamps sent by Phillip (the USA):

Harbor of Refuge, Delaware

Navesink, New Jersey
Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania
Harbor of Refuge, Delaware

Another lighthouse postcard I got through the Postcrossing site; this one arrived from Australia:

Tacking Point Lighthouse, Port Macquarie

And still two more, from John's summer holidays in Scotland:

Scalpay Lighthouse, Isle of Harris

The Butt of Lewis, Isle of Lewis

Drawing the Summer - V

 Sent to Alan (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Historical Events in France

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Celebrating an Historical Event. I choose some French stamps I have recently got:

The Treaty of Picquigny is a peace treaty signed on 29 August 1475 between the King of France Louis XI and the King of England Edward IV in Picquigny (Picardy; today located in the Somme department). It definitively puts an end to the Hundred Years' War.

The stamp was issued on 30 June 2017, on a two-stamps mini-sheet. It belongs to the series Les Grandes heures de l'histoire de France (='The Great Hours of French History').

The Journée des Tuiles (='Day of the Tiles') was an event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on 7 June 1788. It was one of the first disturbances which preceded the French Revolution, and is credited by a few historians as its start.

The stamp was issued on 18 June 1988, commemorating the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. 

Other stamps from this series I have got, issued on 25 February 1989, and related to relevant people of this historical event:

Happy World Postcard Day!

I wish you a very happy World Postcard Day, with a lot of postcards sent and received. I cannot believe this is the second time!

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA), in 2020 and 2021 and by Imma (PC).

Drawing the Summer - IV

Sent to Rosemary (Canada).

Are You Ready for World Postcard Day?

I have already got a postcard (from Imma - PC) with the official design for the World Postcard Day. Are you ready to send some postcards on 1st October?

Reading Women...

 ... in high places!

Reading on the Rocks, Grand Manan
John George Brown

Keep Reading
Illustration by Alexandra Dvornikova

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA) and Lena (Russia).

Sunday Stamps | Japan

For this week's topic in Sunday Stamps, Asia, I have chosen the latest stamps arrived from Japan.

12 January 2021: Flower Raft in Hirosaki Park (Aomori Prefecture),

9 October 2020: Canary and Peonies, by Hokusai. for the International Letter Writing Week.

25 May 1973: Quasi-National Parks: Mt. Kamagatake

5 March 2003: Cosmos & Saku Cosmos, Highway - Toshin Area

These stamps arrived in August, on the back of two Postcrossing postcards. Some people not only send beautiful postcards: they take a lot of care of the backs!