Sunday Stamps | Dreamy Blue Landscapes

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Sunday Stamps | Grouse

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Birds. I have quite a few in my collection, so today I chose two cousin birds from different countries, whose illustrations I really like.

Western capercaillie
(Tetrao urogallus)
Switzerland, 1968

Sharp-tailed grouse
(Tympanuchus phasianellus)
Canada, 2016

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Basel from Above

A beautiful view from Basel (Switzerland), sent by Ania.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
November theme: URBAN

• Week 1 - Aerial views
• Week 2 - Street views
• Week 3 - Harbours, port views
• Week 4 - Multiviews

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Lake Constance

An impressive view of the city of Friedrichshafen on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the Bodensee) in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. The lake is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet. 

The postcard was sent from Switzerland, through the Postcrossing site.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

April theme: WATER

• Week 1 - Waterfalls
• Week 2 - Rivers
• Week 3 - Lakes
• Week 4 - Ocean, beaches
• Week 5 - Fountains

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Pink Mail

Front and back of a letter by Laura (the UK) and a postcard sent by Carolina (Switzerland)

Sunday Stamps | Insects

Some beautifully depicted Insects for today's Sunday Stamps...

Bumblebee
Animals in their habitats 
Switzerland, 2022

Monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus)
Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
Beneficial Insects Definitives
Canada, 2007 & 2009

Elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor)
Brilliant Bugs
United Kingdom, 2020

Great Diving Beetle
Europa. Pond Life
United Kingdom, 2001

Stag Beetle (Lucanos cervus)
Insects
United Kingdom, 1985

Sunday Stamps | Going to School

This week, Sunday Stamps is dedicated to Education. Right now, schools and universities in my country are enjoying their holidays. But they will be soon back to school...

Lessons can be hard...

... But definitely better if you find good teachers!

Robert Panara

Mary McLeod Bethune

Bonfires

Midsummer bonfire, sent by Leila (Finland). 

Peter Arenes in Geld und Geist, 1964. Sent by Linda (Switzerland).

Envelope sent by Imma (PC). It is an rare issue of Correos, from 1999, featuring Mingote's illustrations of Don Quixote. I sent a lot of these years ago!

The envelope features a scene from chapters 6 and 7 of the first part of Don Quixote, where his friends examine his library, full with chivalry romances and other books, and decide to burn most of them and seal the room. The comments of the priest allow author Cervantes to praise or condemn the books.

Peace Stamp Project

This year there is not EUROPA stamp contest, because all the participant countries are issuing a stamp with the same design, dedicated to Peace - the highest value of humanity.

I thought it would be nice to get the stamp from as many countries as possible. So I arranged some swaps that are ongoing. So far, I have got the stamps from Austria, Ireland and Switzerland. 

But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be. 

If you wish to swap this stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!

Sunday Stamps | Yellow Flowers

Yellow Flowers for today's Sunday Stamps!

Help for Ukraine
Canada, 2022

Yellow Gentan
Welfare: Alpine flowers
Berlin, 1975

Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)
Flowers Definitives
Germany, 2018

Bukhara iris (Iris bucharica)
Flowers
Hungary, 2015

Vase with Sunflowers
150th Birth Anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh
Netherlands, 2003

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Experience Nature (IV) - Garden Flowers (2019)
Netherlands, 2019

Golden Rain (Laburnum anagyroides)
Pro Juventute: Poisonous plants of the forest
Switzerland, 1974

Harvest Fayre
9th World Congress of Roses, Belfast
United Kingdom, 1991

Sunflower
Flowers
United Kingdom, 2023

Yellow Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis)
Garden Flowers (2021)
United States of America, 2021

Traditional European Clothing

Poland

Czech Republic

Switzerland

Postcards sent by David (Poland), Lli (Czech Republic) and Gabriel (Switzerland) through the Postcrossing site.

Big Stamps

I have been getting some Postcrossing postcards wth really big stamps on the back...

La Choucroute / Sürkrüt

(Another one from this series)

Fribourg (Switzerland)

Is Autumn Here?

Postcard of a chestnut sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Stamp issued by India Post on 15 August 2017, featuring one of the winners of the Beautiful India Nationwide Photography Competition. I do not know when the picture was taken, but it seems Autumn to me.

This stamp belong to the series Animals in their habitats, issued by Swiss Post in March 2022. I like the description on the web:

The first depicts the brown-lipped snail, which carries its home around on its back and can be seen crawling at a leisurely pace over mossy terrain. It adorns the B Mail face value and is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to snail mail.

It was a present from Heleen and arrived inside this envelope.