Thursday Postcard Hunt | Colourful Bird

Not sure it is wild enough... But do not say it is not colourful!

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!

Thank You - 14 Years

Tomorrow, this blog is 14 years old. Thanks for your visits and comments. And, of course, for the wonderful mail you send!

Mail sent by Laura (the UK), Bryon and Phillip (the USA).

Art of the Skateboard

You can find stamps about virtually any subject. Some of them are really surprising! If you are interested, you can read more about this issue here.

Envelope sent by Phillip (the USA).

Postcrossing Meet-Ups

11th February 2024. Utrecht (the Netherlands), sent by Susanne.

4th April 2024. Banyoles (Catalonia), sent by Imma.

5th April 2025. Figueres (Catalonia), sent by Imma.

Sunday Stamps | Random Women

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia. Lucy was named after the 1967 song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles.

Julie-Victorie Daubié (1824 – 1874) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university in 1871.

Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004) was a French writer. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954). On the selvedge, however, you see the title of another of her works: Des bleus à l'âme (1972).

I have chosen these stamps for the theme Women of Sunday Stamps because they were all issued in 2024 and arrived together on this envelope made by Fabienne (France).

Side Effects

Sometimes, publishing a postcard leads to getting a new one. I learned some facts of Ohio from this postcard, and a bit more from the present card.

Same with Tennessee!

Cards sent by Phillip (the USA).

A Colourful City

Front and back of an envelope sent by Phillip (the USA). The more you look at the illustration, the more you like it. 

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Skies

Knowing the place, I doubt this sky is real... But the postcard is beautiful. It was sent by a couple of friends who do not send mail often, so even more appreciated. 

A completely different sky on this postcard sent by Fabienne (France). The artist is Isabelle Thomen.

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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!

Year of the Snake (VI)

Folded postcard featuring Kali, the goddess of transformation. With matching stamps and First Day Cancelation. There are snakes everywhere!

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

Paper Cats

I received these postcards months apart from Phillip (the USA). I cannot help but think that it is the same cat on both.

Lighthouses on Postcards

Lanterna di Genova
(Italy)

Bodie Island Lighthouse, Outer Banks, North Carolina
(the USA)

An Rinn
(Ireland)

Fécamp
(France)

Postcards sent by Ania (Italy), Ilyse (USA), Pammie (Ireland) and Fabienne (France).

Sunday Stamps | Comfortable Furniture

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Furniture. You know... the best furniture is the one that you can use for comfortable reading!

This stamps are two of the Dutch Kinderpostzegels (Children Welfare Stamps) issued in 2007. The designer was M. Kisman, and the title: A Safe Home. (You can see here all the Kinderpostzegels).

States Project | The Palmetto State

The South Carolina postcard, full of postmarks, is the last but one postcard from Bryon's States Project. How cool is that?

Although we have palmettos here (in our case, Chamaerops humilis), I did not know the word, and even less that a US state bears this nickname. The palmetto is also on the flag.

Count Your Blessings (=Mail Days)

An update of my 2025 postal project: counting the days I get mail.

As you can see, my mail life improved in April.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Le Pays du Mimosa

Tanneron, with its twenty-two hamlets nestling in the heart of the massif of the same name, is the largest area in France planted with both cultivated and wild mimosa, spectacular yellow forests of fluffy little balls, so beautiful to see in their natural environment. From December to March, the abundant mimosa blossom will surprise you with its fragrant, intoxicating gold and light: a magical experience.

The sender, Ania, agrees with that!

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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!