Travel the World Through Postcards!

Sent by Bryon (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

Blue Porcelain

This postcard reminded me that I have got some stamps of Delftware...

Loooong

I received a perfect postcard of the lighthouse of Roter Sand (='Red Sand'), in the North Sea. 

The envelope is also perfect. Even the postmark looks like waves!

But you cannot believe how long the postcard is!

Sunday Stamps | USA Presidents

1 - George Washington (1789-1793)

16 - Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

26 - Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

33 - Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

34 - Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)

35 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)

41 - George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)

See more Fathers in today's Sunday Stamps!

Just Some Random Envelopes for You to Enjoy

Sent by Sandy (Germany), Phillip (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

More Waterfalls

After this post, I got (and sent!) some more waterfalls...

Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Upper Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
Waimoku Falls, Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii

LaSalle Canyon Waterfall, Starved Rock State Park, Oglesby, Illinois
Harrison Wright Falls, Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania
Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls State Park, New York

Nevada Fall, Yosemite National Park, CA
Stewart Falls, Mount Timpanogos Wilderness, UT
Sunbeam Falls, Mount Rainier National Park, WA

All these have arrived on letters from Phillip (the USA), like this one I got a week ago:

Front

Back

Funny enough, along with it I received the following Postcrossing vintage postcard from Niagara Falls (Canada):

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Geological

Cova Sant Marçà, in Eivissa Island. 

And also...not exactly a detail, but a curious geological formation anyway!

Mont Sainte-Odile is a 764-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France. The mountain is named after Saint Odile. It has a nunnery at its top called the Hohenburg Abbey,

The stamp was issued in December 2024. Odile, officially the patron saint of the region since 1946, was the daughter of Duke Adalric and his wife, Ereswinde. The oldest account of her life dates from the 10th century, but she was born in the Merovingian era, around 662. Hoping for a male heir, her father denies the child who, moreover, suffers from blindness. Saved from death by her mother, she was sent to grow up far away in an abbey where Saint Erhard, Irish missionary bishop in Bavaria, following a vision that ordered her to go baptize a young blind girl, made her recover her sight and named her Odile (Daughter of light). Returning to Alsace, with the help of her repented father, she created several religious establishments to welcome the sick and the needy, and died in 720.

Sent by Fabienne (France).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
June theme: DETAILS

• Week 1 - Architectural
• Week 2 - Geological
• Week 3 - Faces
• Week 4 - Tchotchkes, or touristy items

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Goodnight Moon

I got this piece of mail from Bryon (the USA). The stamps and stationary celebrate Goodnight Moon, an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It was published in 1947.

It took me a while to realise it was actually an aerogram! For once, I managed to open it properly.

I have not read the book (yet?). But I like that, on the stamps, they knit and sleep. It seems a relaxing life!

How Often Do You Think about the Roman Empire?

Roman Theatre
Cartagena, SPAIN

Porta Praetoria
Northern gate of the Roman legionary camp
Castra Regina, built 179 AD
Regensburg, GERMANY

Roman Theatre
Tarragona, SPAIN

Sent by Ximo (Spain), R (PC) and Sandy (Germany).

Fishing Season in My Mailbox

Sockeye Salmon - Washington

Sent by Bryon. See also here.

Sunday Stamps | Fables & Tales

Four stamps from the Hong Kong 2015 series Chinese and Foreign Folklore:

The Tortoise and the Hare
The Wild Swans

The Old Man Who Moved Mountains
The Little Engine That Could

From Hungary, a 2021 stamp celebrating the 400th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine:

The Ant and the Grasshopper

A 2003 stamps about Aldar Köse, a Kazakh folk fairy tale and name of main character:

Strega Nona, a children's picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, on a 2023 USA stamp:

Princess Aurora and the fairies Flora, Fauna and Sunshine: a Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. on a 2008 USA stamp:

From the 2025 UK series Myths and Legends, the Loch Ness Monster:

See more Illustrated/Engraved stamps on Sunday Stamps!

This Lavish Spring

Postcard from Kent (UK), sent by Laura.