Mail Adventures: winter

Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

10 May 2026

Sunday Stamps | O Is for O Beautiful

America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. Bates wrote the words as a poem, and it was first published in the Fourth of July 1895 edition of the church periodical, The Congregationalist. At that time, the poem was titled America.

On 4th July 2018, USPS issued a 20-stamp sheet where each stamp features a photograph that helps illustrate one of five phrases from the song’s famous first verse: “Spacious Skies,” “Waves of Grain,” “Mountain Majesties,” “The Fruited Plain,” and “Sea to Shining Sea.”

I have got some of the stamps:

Spacious Skies

Mountain Majesties

The Fruited Plains

Sea to Shining Sea

You can go to Sunday Stamps to see more O-related stamps.

07 May 2026

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Arctic Refuge

Polar bear, Ursus maritimus, cub checks out eskimo elder Daniel Akootchook, on his ATV out on the pack ice, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

Postcard sent by Susan (the USA).

-----------------------------------------------

Thursday Postcard Hunt
May theme: PARKS AND GARDENS

Week 1 - National Parks
Week 2 - Public Gardens
Week 3 - Beaches
Week 4 - Forests

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

19 April 2026

Sunday Stamps | L Is for Landscapes

From Far and Wide is a Canadian series of stamp that has been running since 2018. It showcases the most beautiful landscapes in the country. I am very fond of these tiny stamps. I just wish they were a little bigger!

Point Pelee National Park, Ontario (2018)

Covehead Harbour Lighthouse, Prince Edwuard Island (2018)

Ile-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park, Quebec (2018)

Iceberg off coast of Newfoundland & Labrador (2019)

Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park, Saskatchewan (2020)

Abraham Lake, Alberta (2020)

Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Yukon (2020)

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick (2020)

Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (2020)

Torngat Mountains National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador (2024)

Restigouche River, New Brunswick (2025)

Qarlinngua Sea Arch, Nunavut (2025)

You can go to Sunday Stamps to see more L-stamps!

09 February 2026

Winter Collage

Front and back of a collage made by Fabienne (France). Perfect theme for these days!

In case you want to see better the snowy stamps from different countries that she used on the front part:

The snowflakes (all different, of course!);

And the stamps on the back, on the same topic:

04 February 2026

Iced Letters

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).

02 February 2026

Warmest Wishes

Really nice to look at this illustration in the middle of the winter...

Card sent by Phillip (the USA).

16 January 2026

A New Year of Mail

I like that this postcard, among some important events we can look forward to this year, lists "Happy Mail"!

It experienced a small mail adventure. It was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) well in advance, with my address clearly written on the white envelope and more postage than necessary.

But the postal machines got confused with this reverse, so they postmarked the non-stamps and delivered it... to the sender! Heleen sent it back it in a larger envelope.