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"!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | My Happy Place Is Next to a Lighthouse!

Mevagissey
CORNWALL

1. List-Ost - 2. List-West - 3. Quermarkenfeuer Rotes Klift - 
4. Kampen - 5. Hörnum
GERMANY

Texel
NETHERLANDS

Aveiro
PORTUGAL

Barsagin Cape, Vladivostok
RUSSIA

Passing Lismore Lighthouse enroute for the island of Mull
SCOTLAND

The Cuckold's Light, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
USA

Postcards sent by Ania (UK), Birgit (Germany), Heleen (Netherlands), Pedro (Portugal), Vika (Russia) and Amber (USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

20 Years of Postcrossing (1)

I have not been a full 20 year postcrosser (only almost 17 years), and I confess I did not properly celebrate the day*. However, I am happy to see one of the most wonderful projects ever is still alive and growing in its 20th anniversary. 

As I was happy to get these postcards from Bryon! --Have you noticed the red postcard is also on the other one?!?

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*No worries: everyday is a good day to send postcards!

Fishing Season in My Mailbox (II)

The Whitefishes, 2007
Gregory Lee Blackstock (1946-2003)

Sent by Bryon. See also here and here.

Summer Mail - V

Colourful beach huts on West Beach (Whitsable, England, United Kingdom) under a moonlit sky and Whistable from the air. Postcards sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Christmas in July

I do not really understand the celebration of Christmas in July, but this is the first stamp that came to my mind...

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Christmas-in-July stamps.

Making Friends

 

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada). Artistamp by Donovan Beeson.

Creating Light

Postcard made by Fabienne (France), out of a reused piece of packaging.

Envelope made by Heleen (the Netherlands), out of a page of a magazine.

Postcard made by Bryon (the USA), from reused packaging. It was sent after a big blackout in the area I live in.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Slowly

On the back:

From an original postcard of Miss Blossom E. Stevens, who worked as a postwoman during the First World War at Ashmore Post Office in Dorset, where her uncle was the Postmaster. The photograph was handed down to his great-niece, by whose permission is it reproduced.

 

And not so slowly, but still...

Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway. The steam train was an original mode of transportation up Pikes Peak, by pushing a passenger car up and then pulling it down. There are 4 stops along the trip where they would get water. The steam train went out of service in 1958, but one is still in working condition today and makes an occasional trip each year. 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Dog Bite Awareness

I guess the slogan on these postmarks is even more rellevant for the bunnies on the stamps.

And on this stamp it made a curious collage:

Mail & Relax

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).