Sunday Stamps | G Is for Gardens & Parks

Wolf Trap Farm, Virginia
National Parks Centennial Issues
USA, 1972

Plant for a more Beautiful America, Lady Bird Johnson
USA, 2012

Pond Gardens, Hampton Court Palace
UK, 2018

Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Moscow
Russia, 2022

The Devil's Bridge, Gablenz
Germany, 2025

Go to Sunday Stamps and you will see more G-stamps.

Women on Postcards | O Is for Oz

It has been a while since the last time I received mail from Oz! 

Postcard sent by Marina (USA).

Dorothy, 2015
Janelle Dimmett

Not a postcard, but Dorothy and her friends also appear on this handmade envelope (from a calendar sheet), with the greenest stamps:

Both pieces of mail were sent by Phillip (the USA).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Or Send Someone a Love Postcard

Postcards & stamps sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Postcard and stamps sent by Bryon (the USA). Notice the matching stamps and the pictorial cancellation:

And other ones, clearer:

Incoming Festive Envelopes

Envelopes made by Micu (Hungary), Fabienne (France), Laura (UK) and Rosemary (Canada).

Seven Languages

And another Christmas classic: cards written in several languages. As you have guessed, I love these!

Sent by Lluïsa (PC).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | All I Want for Christmas...

... is free postcards! Or any kind of postcards, for that matter.

Actually, this one was supposed to be sent to another person:

But I was the happy recipient instead!

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Toads & Frogs

European Green Toad (Buffo viridis)

Who knows what a Flickerdick is?

Sent by Bryon (Canada) and Heleen (the Netherlands).

A green frog...

Oh, and there is another one on the selvedge of this French stamp!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Rhön Biosphere Reserve & Appalachian Trail

Abtsrodaer Hilltop in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, Hesse (Germany).

A century after its creation, the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) continues to whisk hikers away on therapeutic adventures in ever-increasing numbers, either for the entire almost 2,200-mile hike from Georgia to Maine or to enjoy a single out-and-back trek. Photo by Nico Schueler.

Postcards sent by Ines (Germany) and Phillip (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: LEARNING

• Week 1 - Legends, Children's Stories
• Week 2 - Famous People
• Week 3 - National Parks
• Week 4 - History (Could Be Historical Buildings)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Good People Meet

Last month, I received this postcard through the Postcrossing site. It had traveled from China for 72 days! There were nice stamps on the back, but no explanation. The message was simply "Happy Postcrossing", wihthout names.

After registering it, I looked at the sender's profile and saw that the same postcard had been sent several times:

I felt curious about the picture. An online translator told me that the words on top mean something like "Good People Meet" (It looks like a good slogan for Postcrossing, doesn't it?). After further researching, I found out that this kind of images are made in Yunnan by Bai people, using old wood engraving techniques.

You can read more here and here, for instance I do not know how accurate the information is, but the pictures are wonderful!

Summer Beer!

On the first Friday of August, the International Beer Day is celebrated around the world. I received this card by Heleen (the Netherlands) yesterday. It says "summer"!

Just Some Random Envelopes for You to Enjoy

Sent by Sandy (Germany), Phillip (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Geological

Cova Sant Marçà, in Eivissa Island. 

And also...not exactly a detail, but a curious geological formation anyway!

Mont Sainte-Odile is a 764-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France. The mountain is named after Saint Odile. It has a nunnery at its top called the Hohenburg Abbey,

The stamp was issued in December 2024. Odile, officially the patron saint of the region since 1946, was the daughter of Duke Adalric and his wife, Ereswinde. The oldest account of her life dates from the 10th century, but she was born in the Merovingian era, around 662. Hoping for a male heir, her father denies the child who, moreover, suffers from blindness. Saved from death by her mother, she was sent to grow up far away in an abbey where Saint Erhard, Irish missionary bishop in Bavaria, following a vision that ordered her to go baptize a young blind girl, made her recover her sight and named her Odile (Daughter of light). Returning to Alsace, with the help of her repented father, she created several religious establishments to welcome the sick and the needy, and died in 720.

Sent by Fabienne (France).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
June theme: DETAILS

• Week 1 - Architectural
• Week 2 - Geological
• Week 3 - Faces
• Week 4 - Tchotchkes, or touristy items

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | Shyâm

This French stamp, issued in 2025, belongs to the set Un cabinet de curiosités (=Cabinet of curiosities). 

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Creepy Crawlies.

Spring Readers

This is the perfect season for reading in the garden.

But maybe you prefer to read indoors...

Letter sent by Laura (the UK) and door tag Phillip (the USA).

And Not Only Daffodils!

Not only daffodils, but the spring mail has brought tulips, wisteria...

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).