Thursday Postcard Hunt | Illustrated Fruits

Postcards with botanical illustrations sent from Germany and the USA through the Postcrossing site. I just love citrus!

Let me add more non-illustrated oranges that I have recently got from Florida:

But one can live only on oranges (especially in the summer!). So... What about these mirabelles sent by Fabienne (France)? It seems that the mirabelles from Lorraine are especially good!

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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!

Outgoing Summer Mail: Citrus

Sent to Canada, France, Russia, the UK and the USA.

Summer Mail - XI

 

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

Enjoy the Summer!

(... If you are in the northern hemisphere.)

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK). 

Vihreä asetelma, c. 1930, by Helene Schjerfbeck

Postcards sent by Hilkka and Piia (Finland), through the Postcrossing site.

Postcard sent by John (the UK).

Letter sent to Fabienne (France).

Really?

If you say
GULLIBLE
slowly it sound like 
ORANGES

Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). I added it to my Citrus album. 

Where There Is Tea

Wonderful envelope sent by Fabienne (France).

And, besides a letter, some surprises inside. Like:

Sunday Stamps | Science

Several sciences represented on stamps for this week's theme in Sunday Stamps: Science-related.

Chemistry

Canada, 2011
International Year of Chemistry
John Polanyi, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Oman, 2011
International Year of Chemistry

United Kingdom, 1977
Royal Institute of Chemistry

Photogrammetry

Canada, 1972
Earth Sciences

Physics

Germany, 2017
Astrophysics

United Kingdom, 1991
Scientific Achievements
Michael Faraday - Electricity

Biomedical Sciences

Spain, 2018
Biomedical Research in Spain

Spain, 2019
The Generation of 2000
The sequencing of the human genome

Malaysia, 1976
75th Anniversary of Institute of Medical Research

United Kingdom, 2019
British Engineering
Synthetic bone-grafting material

Yummy Multiples

How much information can the front of a postcard contain?

Belgian Cuisine
Sent by Céline (Belgium)

Russian Samovars
Sent by Ivan (Russia)

And... how can people be so organised when designing cards?

Sent by Laura (the UK)

Sent by Oh!Lanas (Spain)

Orangery

John Michael Rysbrack
A View of the Orangery at Chiswick, Lord Burlington's Garden,
undated, hand-coloured engraving

For someone who loves citrus, it is very nice to get the postcard of an orangery, And another one with lemons!

Summertime, by Anna Markiewicz

Both sent by Laura (the UK).

Happy 8th Bloganniversary, Dear Mail Adventures!

(I received these cards for my birthday. I am just a bit older than the blog.)

Sweet Orange Postcards

Postcard sent by Naomi (Australia). I think these postcards (sold here, in case you are wondering) are an original idea that can save you time: you just need to tick on the right options.

I was thinking of drawing my own designs... But, of course, that wouldn't save me time!

Sometimes mail arrives in couples... and I received also a recipe postcard, an orange cake, from Fabienne (France). I still have to try it!

Autumn Harvests

Postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). It is an illustration by Marit Törnqvist, from de book Jij bent de liefste (Hans & Monique Uitgeverij). I don't know the story, and I don't think they are harvesting sunflowers... But the scene made me think of the Autumn, so I added it to Maria's link Postcards for the Weekend, the theme this week being Fall scenes.

A gorgeous postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). I don't know which variety these Washington apples are, so I am not sure they are harvested in Autumn...

Also sent by Bryon. This is a real fall scene! As I read in the Idaho Potato Commission's site: "Harvest begins in early September and can run through most of October. Most of the potatoes are harvested in the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks of October". I didn't know that Idaho potato's were so famous. The sender wrote that the one on the picture can be "a slight exaggeration"... :)

Autumn is also the season of harvesting oranges, at least here, and in my region. This metallic (yes!) postcard was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands); inside a nice reused envelope, with some orange/autumn stamps on and funny postmarks:

I received the next one, made of a label of beer, the same week, along with a letter from Alan (Adanaland). Have a look at the artiststamps! It is odd, but I find the light on this related to the orange peel above...

Last but not least, let me show a beautiful postcard recently sent by Micu (Hungary), showing Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe. Maybe these are summer pictures. But orange, besides being one of my favourite colours, is usually associated with Autumn...

Oranges on Stamps

I could have add these stamps to my previous post of Sunday Stamps-II, dedicated to fruits and nuts. But I reserved them for the Orange and Yellow theme...

This is one of the four stamps issued by Royal Mail on 2 March 1977, dedicated to British Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry.

One more of the the Fun Fruit 'n' Veg Smilers sheet, issued by Royal Mail on 7 March 2006.

And these are not oranges as I thought, but its cousins, the kumquats. This is a commemorative stamp celebrating the Chinese New Year, issued on 22 January 2011, and designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. Kumquats are eaten for luck and given as special gifts during the New Year celebrations. More information here.