Thursday Postcard Hunt | Fly

No 46 "Night and Day"
Kristen Etmund

Ornament
A. Zakharchenko

Sent by Rosemary (Canada) and Eduard (Russia). 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail - XI

 

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

20 Years of Postcrossing (2)

Among the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Postcrossing, it was also this special postmark that I have received thanks to Bryon (the USA).

It is on the back of this postcard. At first sight... I thought it was the same one!

Summer Mail - X

Front and back of a refreshing letter sent by Fabienne (France), made out of a page of a magazine.

Sunday Stamps | C Is for Country Singers

The Carter Family was an American folk music group that recorded and performed between 1927 and 1956. Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Carter and his wife, Sara, joined with sister-in-law Maybelle to perform a repertoire of original tunes and traditional folk songs laced with a strong gospel emphasis. Some of their signature numbers included Wildwood Flower and I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes.

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For the new edition of Sunday Stamps A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter C.

Postbox Saturday | Formentera

Two sunny post boxes on the island of Formentera. Pictures taken at the beginning of June.

Sant Francesc de Formentera

La Savina

Том Сойер Фест

The Tom Sawyer Fest is a summer festival of restoration of the historical heritage by volunteers and sponsors. They focus their efforts particularly on the wooden houses in the city center. Most of the festival's objects are buildings represent no value in the eyes of local authorities, as they are not listed as historical or architectural monuments.

The festival was born in Samara in 2015, and its name honours the character in Mark Twain's novels, who was punished by painting a wooden fence.

Before

The postcard has a clever design: you have to paint the house! It features "Svirelin's House" (Moskovskaya St,. 28, in Pereslavl-Zalessky) named after priest Alexander Ivanovich Svirelin, caretaker of the Pereslavl Theological School, writer, local historian and historian. It has been transformed thanks to 250 adult volunteers (and a lot of children!) during twenty days.

After

See more pictures here or in the official website.

(The mail adventure here is that, believe it or not, the postcard arrived when I was re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...!)

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Dutch Interior

Dutch Interior (III), by Joan Miró

Postcard sent by Fabienne (France).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail - IX

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

Postcrossing Meeting in Boalsert/Bolsward

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), with matching stamps on the back featuring the city of Boalsert/Bolsward.

Summer Mail - VIII

Do not palm trees immediately make you think of summer?

Salou

Barceloneta

Perpinyà

Dominican Republic
(But sent from the USA)

Sent by R (PC), Imma (PC), and Yihua (USA).

Sunday Stamps | B Is for Belcourt

Christi Belcourt (born 1966) is a visual artist, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based based arts and language learner. She is most well known for her large painted floral landscapes of Metis beadwork.

This stamp was issued in 2024, and belongs to the Indigenous Leaders series, launched in 2022.

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For the current round of Sunday Stamps A-Z I choose stamps dedicated to women. You can see here the list of all the Women on Stamps featured on this blog.

Go to Sunday Stamps  to enjoy more B-stamps.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Delta de l'Ebre

The Ebre Delta is one of the largest wetland areas in the western Mediterranean region. It is located in the southwest of the Province of Tarragona, in Catalonia in Spain. 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail - VII

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada).

It seems you can get different flavours of this stamp!

(I got the rose & green stamp in 2023!)

Summer Mail - VI

Summer, by Charlie Harper.

Card sent by Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | A Is for Anneke & Aussem

Welcome to a new alphabet round in Sunday Stamps! For this new A-Z round I am (again!) showing stamps dedicated to women, among those that I have received. Starting with A...

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 – 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaigned to end slavery, agitated to enfranchise women, and ran a girls' school.

Cilly Aussem (1909 – 1963) was a German tennis player. She was the first German, male or female, to win the singles title at Wimbledon,  in 1931.

Both stamps were issued in 1998, and belong to the series Frauen der deutschen Geschichte (='Women in German history'), a definitive stamp series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany 1990 to 2003. 

The Second Best (Mail) Month of 2025

(July update of my 2025 postal project: counting the days I get mail.)

Summer Beer!

On the first Friday of August, the International Beer Day is celebrated around the world. I received this card by Heleen (the Netherlands) yesterday. It says "summer"!