Year of the Fire Horse [OUT]

Mail sent to Heleen (the Netherlands), Fabienne (France) and Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Y Is for Youth

The European Youth Capital is a title awarded by the European Youth Forum to a European city annually, designed to empower young people, boost youth participation and strengthen European identity through projects focused on youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development. The European Youth Capital is an initiative by the European Youth Forum and is awarded for a period of one year.  

In 2014, Thessaloniki (Greece) was the chosen city. The current capital for the 2026 calendar year is Tromsø, Norway.

This is my Y-post for A-Z Sunday Stamps. Y is always a difficult letter!

Outgoing Summer Mail: Paper Fans

Sent to France, the Netherlands and the USA.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | My Happy Place Is Next to a Lighthouse!

Mevagissey
CORNWALL

1. List-Ost - 2. List-West - 3. Quermarkenfeuer Rotes Klift - 
4. Kampen - 5. Hörnum
GERMANY

Texel
NETHERLANDS

Aveiro
PORTUGAL

Barsagin Cape, Vladivostok
RUSSIA

Passing Lismore Lighthouse enroute for the island of Mull
SCOTLAND

The Cuckold's Light, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
USA

Postcards sent by Ania (UK), Birgit (Germany), Heleen (Netherlands), Pedro (Portugal), Vika (Russia) and Amber (USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Follow Your Heart

Back of an envelope sent by Imma (PC).

How Is Your Summer? - XI

Letter sent by Imma (PC).

Alphabet 2023 | V Is for Verona

V is for Verona in Bryon's postal project Alphabet 2023. On this one, all the stamps but one refers to the state of Virginia.

Virginia Bluebells / Stream Violet

Ratification of the Constitution Bicentennial -
June 25, 1788, Virginia / 
Dark Hollow Falls, Virginia

Battle of the Virginia Capes 1781

Alphabet 2023 | J Is for Jupiter

The Alphabet 2023 postcards, Bryon's project, keep surprising me. I did not expect to get a postcard from another planet! Well...at least from Jupiter (Florida). Sent in June, of course.

And these are probably the best matching stamps ever: non other than four stamps Jupiter-related! (Can you find those?). And some bonuses: dancing jitterbug in front of a jukebox and an illustration by John James Audubon.

Royal Flowers

I have got two stamps from the Flowers series, issued by Royal Mail on 9 March 2023. This is the first issue that features the silhouette of King Charles III. This is the first change of silhouette in the UK stamps since 1968.

Rabbits and Rabbits

 

Another bunny arrived, actually, in February (sent by Phillip, the USA). 

I cannot understand why they abuse the stamps this way... :(

I received some days latter another bunny. Happily, without mistreated stamps and a wonderful pictorial postmark:

Spring on Postcards

Send by Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Vietnamese Buildings

One-pillar Pagoda, Ba Dinh
Bridge Pagoda, Quang Nam

Keo Pagoda, Thá Binh

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Monochromatic Stamps.

¡Viva la Vida!

Envelope made out of a calendar by Fabienne (France), with a Frida-themed matching postcard, to be added to this small collection of postcards...

The stamp enters the 2022 competition of EUROPA stamps. The theme this year is Stories & Myths, and the French stamp features Mélusine, a legendary creature coming from chivalrous stories and medieval tales and depicted as a mermaid, a reptile from the hips down, or a dragon.

You can see here all the 2022 EUROPA stamps.

Koningsdag

Royal envelope sent to Heleen (the Netherlands). I know it should be orange...

Spring Mail

Celebratng he spring... While waiting the rian to sptop one day! Postcard & matching stamps sent by Laura (the UK).

Celebrating International Women's Day

Good Housekeeping, Norman Rockwell, 1942

The Jury Holdout, 1959
By Norman Rockwell

This Norman Rockwell work was the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 14 February 1959. 

Rockwell might have gotten the idea for his February 14, 1959, cover from a movie released two years earlier. 

In 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda played a dissenting juror who eventually persuaded the other 11 men on a jury to vote with him. As in the movie, this deliberation has taken hours, indicated by the crumpled ballots on the floor and the cloud of smoke overhead. 

What made this cover more than just a reprise of the movie is that Rockwell’s holdout is a strong-minded woman, holding fast to her principles, at a time when women jurors were still a rarity in some states, and not permitted in some others.

(Text taken form here.)

Inspiring Women from Austria

Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943
Frida Kahlo

By Elga Fernández Lamas

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA), Heleen (the Netherlands) and Josep (PC).

Inside & Outside

It had been long time since I got a couple of inside & outside pair of postcards from the same place!

Getting Beautiful Envelopes

Letters sent by Pina (Belgium) and Laura (the UK).

Hello, Spring!

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Helleborus 'Bowles's Yellow' &
Helleborus atrorubens
by Graham Stuart Thomas

Crocus imperati & Crocus sieberi subsp. atticus
coloured drawing by Lilian Snelling, Feb. 1915