Sunday Stamps | Delicious Vegetables

Delicious vegetables for today's theme in Sunday Stamps: Food. 

Flower splendor series
The Netherlands, 2009

Paprika Museum, Kalocsa
Hungary, 2012

Traditional Gastronomy - Kolokasi
Cyprus, 2020

Orphaned

 

I got this postcard through the Postcrossing site. It was unwritten, inside an envelope... but stamped. Actually, the postage was enough to send three postcards. 

I resend it to Bryon, and the posctcard came back, this time written. So it travelled twice from the USA to Spain!

Chemainus

I got another staycation postcard, from Lilli (Canada). I like the idea more and more. Staycation is a perfect occasion to send postcards, don't you think so?

Postcards from Beautiful Places I Have Never Been To

Constância (Portugal)

Farver Mühle bei Wangels in Ostholstein (Germany)

Steyr (Austria)

Dubai Frame at Sunset (UAE)

Postcards sent by RFS (Portugal), Günter (Germany), Eleonora (Austria) and Dalal (UAE). 

The first one was won in a Postcrossing Forum lottery; the last one was an exchange, through the same Forum. 

Machins on a Postcard

I got this postcard from John (the UK). Now I hesitate... Should I add it to my stamps album?

Some Nice Envelopes & Stamps

Received from Pina (Belgium), Laura (the UK), Claudia (Germany), Catherine (France) and Helen (the USA). The lime one, as you can read, meant that I won a lottery in the Postcrossing forum.

Sunday Stamps | Dutch Patents

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Inventions/Discoveries. 

The stamps above were issued on 9 February 2010 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Rijksoctrooiwet or State Patent Act. They feature several interesting inventions: Polyethylene fiber (DSM 1979), Dutch telescope (Lipperhey 1608)... and one I consider very important for letter writers: Handwriting recognition (TNT Post 1980).

The whole sheet:

Turkey & Friends

I got this letter from Bryon (the USA). It was postmarked in Turkey (Texas, USA), making a perfect match with the stamps. 

And... what do you think the envelope contained? More Turkey stamps, of course!

On the back of another postcard sent by Bryon, I found two friends of the turkey...

... and a perfectly matching postmark, again:

Stars of Summer

Collage on an envelope sent by Imma (PC).

Small!

I conduct a sort of postal experiment: I sent to Bryon (the USA) a very small card Oz-themed. (Sorry, I did not take any picture of it!)

It arrived safe and sound, and the reply came as a similar card, slightly smaller than the postal regulations allow. It travelled 28 days before reaching my mailbox. 

It was delivered while it was really pouring outside, hence those strange marks and the illegible postmark. But it was perfectly readable inside, and the Judy Garland's stamps remained in good condition.

Sunday Stamps | Summer

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is... Summer!

Enjoy the Summer!

(... If you are in the northern hemisphere.)

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK). 

Vihreä asetelma, c. 1930, by Helene Schjerfbeck

Postcards sent by Hilkka and Piia (Finland), through the Postcrossing site.

Postcard sent by John (the UK).

Letter sent to Fabienne (France).

Art in Progress

Front

I send this envelope to Laura (the UK); I used art supplies packaging to made it. 

I made a similar one some time ago, but I can't find it in my files.

Back

Bluebells = Summer

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

Finnish Markets

Market in Turku

I got this postcard last week from Turku, Finland, from a postcrosser. I like poscards depicting  street life and markets. I think they give us a glimpse of real life. 

At first sight, I thought it was the same very postcard that I have received some years ago. But, of course, I was wrong: the postcards feature different cities. 

Hämeenlinnasta marketplace

And another difference is that in the newer postcard the faces of people are blurred (Can you appreciate it?). I had never seen that on a postcard.