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!

Goodnight Moon

I got this piece of mail from Bryon (the USA). The stamps and stationary celebrate Goodnight Moon, an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It was published in 1947.

It took me a while to realise it was actually an aerogram! For once, I managed to open it properly.

I have not read the book (yet?). But I like that, on the stamps, they knit and sleep. It seems a relaxing life!

How Often Do You Think about the Roman Empire?

Roman Theatre
Cartagena, SPAIN

Porta Praetoria
Northern gate of the Roman legionary camp
Castra Regina, built 179 AD
Regensburg, GERMANY

Roman Theatre
Tarragona, SPAIN

Sent by Ximo (Spain), R (PC) and Sandy (Germany).

Fishing Season in My Mailbox (I)

Sockeye Salmon - Washington

Sent by Bryon. See also here.

Sunday Stamps | Fables & Tales

Four stamps from the Hong Kong 2015 series Chinese and Foreign Folklore:

The Tortoise and the Hare
The Wild Swans

The Old Man Who Moved Mountains
The Little Engine That Could

From Hungary, a 2021 stamp celebrating the 400th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine:

The Ant and the Grasshopper

A 2003 stamps about Aldar Köse, a Kazakh folk fairy tale and name of main character:

Strega Nona, a children's picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, on a 2023 USA stamp:

Princess Aurora and the fairies Flora, Fauna and Sunshine: a Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. on a 2008 USA stamp:

From the 2025 UK series Myths and Legends, the Loch Ness Monster:

See more Illustrated/Engraved stamps on Sunday Stamps!

This Lavish Spring

Postcard from Kent (UK), sent by Laura.

States Project | The Show-Me State

I guess you remember Bryon's States Project Well, the missing postcard, Missouri, just landed. Sent on 15 October 2024, but only got a postmark on 10 May 2025, and it arrived on 3 June 2025. That makes it a completely successful project: 50/50!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Timbered

Postcard of Melsungen (Germany), sent by Sandy.

Postcard of Cantebury (United Kingdom), sent by Laura.

For some unknown reason, I have recently found some timbered houses in my mailbox...

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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!

MA Zine #1 | The Big Bag Theory

Inspired by the rhythm of mail deliveries this year, I made this humble* zine: The Big Bag Theory and Other Entropic Postal Rules.

I have sent it to some friends, but I still have a couple of spare ones. If you feel curious, just send me a postcard or a letter** and I will send it to you by snail mail.

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*Just 8 pages DIN A7, printed in black and white.
**If you do not have my address, contact me via e-mail or the contact form.

Mail Deliveries in May

I naïvely thought we were back to weekly deliveries. However, as you see,  postal systems operate in a completely random manner:

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).

I Love to Write

Thursday Postcard Hunt | London Buses

Trafalgar Square in London, and the iconic double-deck red buses.

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
May theme: COLOURFUL

• Week 1 - Trees/Flowers
• Week 2 - Skies
• Week 3 - Wildlife
• Week 4 - Buildings
• Week 5 - Vehicles (trains, buses, boats, cars)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Enigmatic Postcards

I have got this postcards through the Postcrossing site, from China and Russia. No clues on the back. I have used online tools to read them... but certain degree of mystery remains!