Spring & Tea & Letters

Collages of stickers on spring letters sent to Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Women Relax

Art photographer Kim Taylor Reece is best known for the Hula Haniko images. This card was sent by Lilli from Hawaii.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw is an oil on canvas portrait painting of Gertrude Agnew. The painting was commissioned in 1892 and completed the same year by the American portrait artist John Singer Sargent.

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN

• Week 1 - Working
• Week 2 - Relaxing
• Week 3 - Reading, Handwork
• Week 4 - Famous Women

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | Quartz

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Minerals. I found two stamps featuring quartz: one from France (1986) and one from Ukraine (2009). 

Hand Printed Christmas Cards

Card printed by Alan (the UK), from very old printing blocks.

Printed by Vicky (Spain).

Rainbow of Letters

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Easter

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Chocolates, bunnies/rabbits, flowers, eggs, churches... 

Among the eggs, a couple of decorated ones from Ukraine. Among the flowers: Passionflower and Pasqueflower will do to wish Happy Easter to all who celebrate it.

Bye, Year of the Rabbit!

Sunday Stamps | Skies

Today's topic in Sunday Stamps is The Sky. Some impressive ones below...

Cloudscapes: Cumulonimbus
Australia, 2018

Northern Lights / Aurore boréales
150th Anniversaire of the Royal Astronomical Society
Canada, 2018

Community Foundation Benefit Stamp
Canada, 2021

Atmospheric Phenomena: Thunderstorm
Germany, 2018

December Stamps: Snowfall
Netherlands, 2007

Atmospheric Phenomena: Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds
Germany, 2020

O Beautiful: Sea to Shining Sea
 Canaveral Seashore, Florida / Bailey Island, Maine
USA, 2018

Gardens Are for the Summer

A mass planting of Allium
University of Cambridge Botanic Garden

Mallorca (Balearic Islands)

British Gardens: Sissinghurst

British Gardens: Blenheim

Pieces of mail sent by Laura (the UK), Bryon (the USA) and R (PC).

Bridges & Poems

Saint-Cado (France), by He Yifu

'A cat in exchange for a bridge,
smart people laugh at the devil.'

Card sent by Catherine (France).

The Baltimore-Annapolis-Washington region is linked to the eastern shore of Maryland by the five-mile-dual Cheasapeake Bay Bridge, with the longest steel spans over salt water in the world. Over 200 feet at its highest point, the first span was completed in 1952, and the second added in 1973.

Photo by Middleton Evans

Postcard sent by Phillip (the USA).

Getting Beautiful Envelopes

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

Drawing the Summer - IV

Sent to Rosemary (Canada).

Stripes

I got this card from Laura (the UK). My reply reached her on the envelope below, made of a page of a magazine

Bluebells = Summer

Letter sent by Laura (the UK), and stamps arrived on the back of postcards from Finland and Germany.

Sunday Stamps | Lynxes

Today's topic in Sunday Stamps is Cats (big or small).

  

The stamp above belongs to a mini-sheet commemorating the eighties. One of the stamps depicts naturalist and broadcaster Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, very well known at that time for the highly successful series El Hombre y la Tierra ('The Man and the Earth'). On this stamp, he carries a baby lynx in his arms.

More lynxes I have got (although I had not realised until today):

Russia, 2008

USA, 2015

USA, 1990

Spain, 1998