Sunday Stamps | F Is for Fruits

Kidney Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Turkey, 2018

Cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
Russia, 2022

Teenage boy eating apple
 (Changing tastes in Britain)
UK, 2005

Stamp Day 2011
France, 2011

Mango & Orange
Fruits (Series 3)
China, 2018

Apricots
Fruits (Series 2)
China, 2016

Go to Sunday Stamps to enjoy more F- stamps today!

From a Sunny Place

I sent some citrus postcards in mid-summer (28th July 2025). One of them  arrived in Russia in mid-winter (early February). As the recipient wrote... maybe it is not arriving late, but too soon!

(Pictures taken from Eduard's blog.)

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Lucca & Lisboa

Lucca (Italy). Postcard sent by Bruno (PC).

Lisbon (Portugal), illustrated by Inna Korneeva. Postcard sent by Pedro (Portugal). 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: CITIES

• Week 1 - Asian
• Week 2 - Southern European
• Week 3 - Northern European
• Week 4 - North American

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Refreshing Postcards

Postcards are my main way of travelling these days, so the my preferred postcards to get through Postcrossing are tourist, traditional ones, But I always list a few more things I like on my Postcrossing profile, because some senders need more ideas, or cannot find tourist postcards in the places they live in. And one of these things is citrus fruits. I love oranges and lemons, and they never fail to cheer me up. So, from time to time, I receive some, like this postcard sent by Yesim (Germany).

Besides the postcard, the nice stamp and the friendly message, she took the time to decorate the back. How cool is it?

The same day, I received this postcard by Fleur (the UK). A lot of citrus and lighthouses and Christmas stamps on the back, too. Postcrossers trying to do their best really rock!

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.)