Sunday Stamps | Health

Today's Sunday Stamps is dedicated to Health and medicine. There are a lot of stamps to choose from, especially celebrating achievements or raising awareness among people. I found some examples:

Breast Cancer Research
USA, 1998

Public Hospitals
USA, 1986

Struggle Against COVID-19
Turkey, 2022

COVID-19 become a popular theme among stamp collectors. Nevertheless, I think this is the only stamp I have got related to it.

Red Cross
Netherlands, 2002

Insulin 100th Anniversary
Canada, 2021

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)

Stay at Home...

... and write letters!

Sent by Rosemary (Canada).

American Gardens

Two letters sent by Phillip (the USA). The calendar on the first envelope and the jigsaw letters match with the letters contents. and also do the stamps.

The stamps are just beautiful. They belong to the American Gardens series, issued on 13 May 2020.

The Huntington Botanical Gardens (California)
Biltmore Estate Gardens (North Carolina)
Dumbarton Oaks Garden (District of Columbia)
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens (Ohio)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York)

Norfolk Botanical Garden (Virginia)
Winterthur Garden (Delaware)
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (Maine)

And, actually, I have got the ten designs included on the pane:

Norfolk Botanical Garden (Virginia)
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park (Florida)

Chicago Botanic Garden (Illinois)
Winterthur Garden (Delaware)

With the First Day cancellation, too!

Chicago Botanic Garden (Illinois
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park (Florida)

Newnormal vs. Oldnormal

On the Newnormal side...

Greetings from Self-Isolation
Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA)

Personnel soignant, merci / Thanks, healthcare workers
Bilingual postmark from Canada

Protect your loved ones.
Download your nation's contact tracing app.
Postmark from the UK

From the Oldnormal: postcard (also sent by Bryon) featuring the first Starbucks coffehouse store, established in 1971 in Seattle (Washington, the USA).

And... What about this one sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)? I know the picture was taken on Oldnormal times. But people in the terrace seem to be social distancing anyway...

Greenhouses

Coloured envelopes sent to John and Laura (the UK) and Phillip (the USA).

M Is for Malice

By Irina Zeniuk

In case you were wondering where the Blue Cat got all that toilet paper from... Another great postcard from John (the UK) explains it all!

Stuck on the back of the postcard:

'As long as you have sufficient toilet paper,
how far wrong can life go?'
M is for Malice, Sue Grafton

Staycation

This summer I didn't get a lot of holidays postcards from my friends. Nor I sent any, except for imaginary trips postcards. 

But, still... some beautiful views (and staycation ideas) have landed.

"A winding lane, a gate and a church on the hill
make a typical English scene."

Tossa de Mar (Girona, Catalonia)

Canterbury cathedral (Kent, UK)

Berchtesgadener Land (Germany)

Read and Read

Reading is one of the main activities during the Stay-At-Home-a-Lot period...

Reading
Ignace Henri Jean Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

Femme lisant, c. 1885
Edgar Degas

Harry Potter

From The Illustrated London News
(1856 or 1874) 

Postcards sent by John (the UK) and Fabienne (France).

Full Moon Tonight

Collage by Phillip (the USA).