Happy/Sad

Happy when you get a letter...

...Sad when you do not get any.

Postcards sent by Bryon (UN).

Summer Mail | OUT

Storks Migrate South...

Letter sent by Imma (PC).

Sunday Stamps | Sur la plage

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) painted this canvas in the summer of 1873, during three weeks spent with his family in the little coastal town of Berck-sur-Mer. He had his wife and brother pose for him on the beach, as is evidenced by the grains of sand mixed with the paint.

Go to Sunday Stamps to discover more Vacation Destinations on stamps.

How Many Penguins Can You Fit in a Letter?

Card from a drawing of Yellow springs, Ohio, by Nancy Mellon. Sent by Phillip (USA).

Women on Postcards | H Is for Harvesters

Harvesters (1905), by Anna Ancher. Card sent by Laura (the UK).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Mini

Again, a re-posted postcard for Thursday Postcard Hunt..

This postcard was sent by John (UK), and a bit damaged on way. It was issued by Royal Mail on 13 January 2009. It was reproduced from a stamp designed by HGV and featuring photography by Jason Tozer of a Mini. The postcard arrived with this matched stamp of a Ford Anglia 105E on its back:

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING

• Week 1 - Trains
• Week 2 - Boats
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Buses, Cars

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail XIII | Summer Nights

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Snail Mail Forever!

Women on Postcards | B Is for Brooks

"What, what, am I to do
with all this life?"
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

 

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Sunday Stamps | Geological Formations

Basalt Island or Fo Shek Chau (火石洲) is an island of Hong Kong. Notably, despite its name is “Basalt Island”, the rocks that forms the island are indeed rhyolitic tuff.

The Grand Bénare is a volcanic peak on the island of Réunion, located in the western part of the island. It is the third highest peak on the island. Its name is believed to come from the Malagasy word Benara meaning 'where it is very cold.'

The Coves del Drac ('Dragon caves') are four great caves that are located in the island of Mallorca, extending to a depth of 25 m and reaching approximately 2.4 km in length. They were first mentioned in a letter dated 1338. The four caves, called Black Cave, White Cave, Cave of Luis Salvador, and Cave of the French, are connected to each other.

Les Gorges du Verdon (Verdon Gorge) is a canyon carved by the Verdon River, separating the Prealps of Castellane and the Prealps of Digne, in France.

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Geology.

Year of the Fire Horse [OUT - III]

Envelope sent to Phillip (the USA).

Women on Postcards | S Is for Summer

Postcards sent by Fabienne (France).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Around the World in Eighty Days

 

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (='Around the World in Eighty Days´) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,00. If you have read it, I am sure you remember the chapter when Fogg has to purchase an elephant because the railway line to Calcutta is incomplete...

Verne is  a favourite author, but I cannot say that I get a lot of mail related to his works. This postcard was sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING

• Week 1 - Trains
• Week 2 - Boats
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Buses, Cars

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail XII | Beach

 

Pescara (Italy). Sent by Laia.

Pink Pattern

I like that some letters Alan (UK) has sent this year form a curious pattern...

Bodie Island

The current Bodie Island Lighthouse stands 48 m tall, and is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It was renovated from 2009 to 2013, and was made climbable by the public. There are 219 steps that spiral to the top. It is one of only a dozen remaining tall, brick tower lighthouses in the United States — and one of the few with an original first-order Fresnel lens to cast its light.

I really like receiving different postcards of the same lighthouse, with photographs taken in different light. This way I can get a better idea of ​​the place.

Postcards send by Marina, Ilyse and Mim (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Rance, Loire, Tees

Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in north-western France. The town overlooks the Rance valley, which has not been freely connected to the sea since the construction of the Rance Tidal Power Station dam.

Banks of the Loire, issued in 2007. The stamp belongs to the series Portraits de régions N° 9 - La France à voir.

As the River Tees comes hurtling down from its North Pennines source, it plunges about 21 metres over an almost vertical cliff. After heavy rain, the peat-laden river splits, forming two falls divided by a protruding buttress, but even this rock can be covered in exceptional weather. England’s most powerful waterfall in terms of volume, High Force is slowly moving upstream as it erodes the sedimentary rocks beneath the Whin Sill – the hard-wearing layer of rock over which the River Tees initially flows.

For more Rivers on stamps, visit Sunday Stamps.

Summer Mail XI | Warm Hugs

Mini-letter and envelope illustrated by Erica Fustero. It might be that I buy her postcards and zines to receive them inside one of her illustrated envelopes... (Like this one and this one).

Women on Postcards | M Is for Madame Moustache

Postcard made and sent by Fabienne (France).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Tasmanian Boats

Postcard sent by Eeyoreinoz (Australia).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING

• Week 1 - Trains
• Week 2 - Boats
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Buses, Cars

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Too Many Letters Waiting to be Answered...

Etc.

(You know who you are.)

Wedding

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Teapots

Received from Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Mountains & Volcano

Piton de la Fournaise (='Peak of the Furnace') is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island, a French overseas department and region, in the Indian Ocean. With a height of 2621, it is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands, Stromboli and Etna in Italy and Mount Erebus in Antarctica. Stamp issued in 2025.

1993 stamp featuring mixed coniferous and broadleaf forest in the Changbai Mountains. Most of ithe peaks of this mountain range exceed 2,000 m in height. The second stamps, from 2000, features Shibao mountain, in Dali (Yunnan Province). It is 3038 m high. 

1984 stamp featuring Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada. The Reserve includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 metres).

2026 stamp honouring the 150th anniversry of Colorao Statehood. It features a photograph of Jagged Mountain, located in the Weminuche Wilderness area of the San Juan National Forest. 

Inside this envelope sent by Phillip (USA), there was a postcard with a map of the state of Colorado, the shape of which has always fascinated me.

Today you can see more Mountains on stamps going to Sunday Stamps.