Tulips!

Tulips are among my favourite flowers. Some of the following stamps (the older ones) had been already uploaded to the blog. But I like to see a lot of tulips together!

Beautiful England

Kingsgate Bay

Widecombe-in-the-Moor

Abbey Green, Bath

Postcards sent by Laura & John (the UK).

Year of the Rabbit

I wish you a Happy New Year with a small collection of rabbits and hares on stamps!

Belarus

Canada

France

Hungary

Japan

The Netherlands

Taiwan

The United Kingdom

The United States of America

Sunday Stamps | Some Trees

Today's theme is Sunday Stamps is Trees. 

I found a couple of landscapes full of trees:

Coed y Brenin (King's Forest)
From the series Forests
The United Kingdom, 2019

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
From Germany's Most Beautiful Panoramas 2018
Germany, 2018

For more urban woods, you can see big trees when visiting Hampton Court Palace in London (the UK):

Hampton Court Palace
The UK, 2018

From the series London Landmarks
The UK, 1980

And I couldn't help uploading this Finnish stamp. I hope all future cities have a lot of trees!

Future City
Finland, 2012

Winter Plants

Letter sent to Laura (the UK).

Winter Tea

Decorated letter sent by Laura (the UK).

I Went to the Woods Because I Wanted to Send a Postcard

Heleen (the Netherlands) sent me this postcard delightfully illustrated by Racey Helps. 

I cannot help thinking that the postcards sent by this bunny family are like this one:

Sent by John, the UK.

Longer Letter Later

 

If you don't have the time/the mood to write a long letter... just a short postcard would do.

Sent by Bryon (the USA).

150 Years of French Postcards

I have recently got this BIG stamp from France. It was issued on 20 December 2022, to commemorate the 150 anniversary of postcards in France.

On December 20, 1872, on the proposal of the director of the Rampont-Léchin Post Office, a finance law formalized the birth of the postcard in France. The first cards circulated on January 15, 1873 and were a resounding success: in one week, 7,412,700 copies were sold. From 1890, the postcard became the preferred medium for correspondence.

The envelope was sent by Fabienne.

Sunday Stamps | Classical Composers & Conductors

 For Music Makers in Sunday Stamps, some well-known composers:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
China, 2010

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Germany, 2020

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
Germany, 2009

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Germany, 2011

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Hungary, 2018

And a couple of famous conductors:

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
USA, 2001

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Hungary, 2018

Rafael Kubelík (1914-1996)
Czech Republic, 1998

Philarmonic

Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic (Lenin Square, Vitebsk, Belarus). Sent by Mary trhough the Postcrossing site.

German stamp from 2017 featuring Elbphilarmonie.

Metropolitan Opera of New York. 1983 USA stamp.

Light Blue Envelopes

Sent by John and Laura (the UK)