Sunday Stamps | X Is for +

The stamp on the left was issued in 2021, and bears the title Герои нашего времени ('Heros of Our Times'). The stamp on the right is a 2015 one dedicated to Служба крови ('Blood Service'), the State Program of Voluntary Donation.

A Red Cross stamps from France, from 1973 (Mary Magdalene).

These are the X post for A-Z Sunday Stamps.

Sunday Stamps | Some Trees

Today's theme is Sunday Stamps is Trees. 

I found a couple of landscapes full of trees:

Coed y Brenin (King's Forest)
From the series Forests
The United Kingdom, 2019

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
From Germany's Most Beautiful Panoramas 2018
Germany, 2018

For more urban woods, you can see big trees when visiting Hampton Court Palace in London (the UK):

Hampton Court Palace
The UK, 2018

From the series London Landmarks
The UK, 1980

And I couldn't help uploading this Finnish stamp. I hope all future cities have a lot of trees!

Future City
Finland, 2012

German Postcrossing Stamp

I have got it... twice!

Actually, since I scheduled this post, I have got it twice more. But I am still not tired of this design.

Update:

Sunday Stamps | Heroes of the Covid Pandemic

Jessica Roberts - NHS Workers
Shachow Ali - Captain Sir Tom Moore

Raphael Valle Martin - NHS hospital cleaners
Alfie Craddock - NHS/my mum

Connie Stuart - The NHS
Ishan Bains - Doctors, nurses

Logan Pearson - Lab technician
Isabella Grover - Delivery driver

Stamps issued on 23 March 2022, drawn by Children (today's theme in Sunday Stamps!). Sent by John (the UK) on several postcards.

Summer Pleasures

 

Postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), with a lot of names on the back. Although I must say that must summer is more like this one...

Stay home a little longer

Well Done

Well placed stamp on this envelope sent by Imma (PC). 

The stamps is one of the winners of the Stamp Design Contest "Disello". The theme was covid-related: For Those Who Take Care of Us. The title of the stamp is Collective Applause, and the designer is Ángel Luis González González. 

The back of the postcard shows, again, this New Normal statment...

Sunday Stamps | Fairy Tales

Your choice is possible the most difficult theme in Sunday Stamps!  Today, I have chosen some stamps featuring legends and fairy tales:

Finland, 1990. This stamp belongs to a series that features the work of the illustrator Rudolf Koivu. I have found that the illustration belongs to the tale Lamb Brother.

Germany, 2020. The legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (above) and a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm: The Wolf and Seven Young Goats (below).

Croatia, 2009. Svarožić, the small god of fire (left) and Bjesomar, an evil spirit (right), characters in Priče iz davnine ('Croatian Tales of Long Ago'), by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić.

Yellow & Black & Red Postcards Apparently Unconnected

Jump Jump
Jennifer Bachelder Design

Donald's Lucky Day

Joan Fuster in front of his house:
10, Sant Josep Street, Sueca
december 1963

By Samin Nosrat & Wendy MacNoughton

Sent by Phillip (the USA), Bryon (the USA) and Bruno (PC).

We Are All Mad Here

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you woldn't have come here."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK), on the New Normal theme. 

The New Normal Snowman

 Letter sent to Heleen (the Netherlands).

Summer 2021: Staycation & Unplanned Trips Postcards

Paris, France
(Sent from the UK)

Chemainus, British Columbia
Canada

Butchery Lane, Canterbury
The United Kingdom

Burgate, Canterbury
The United Kingdom

Kent, the garden of England
The United Kingdom

Kew Gardens
London, the UK

Loon op Zand
The Netherlands

Yellowstone Lake
USA

Greece
(Sent from the UK)

Chemainus

I got another staycation postcard, from Lilli (Canada). I like the idea more and more. Staycation is a perfect occasion to send postcards, don't you think so?

Staycation

Now that people are travelling less often, staycation postcards have become a thing...

Guadalest (Alacant, Spain)
Received from the Netherlands

Torre de la Horadada (Alacant, Spain)
Received from the Netherlands

Retro postcard of Balatonfenyves (Hungary)

'Eeh, these bank holidays... they're a real problem to decide.'
From A Grand Day Out

Sun Street, Canterbury (UK)

Oz Characters

Letter & Postcard sent by Laura (the UK), with matching stamp. It had been a long time since the last Oz-related mail!

This Postcrossing postcard received form Russia, because of the poppies, makes me think of Oz too...