Lighthouses & Blue Skies

North Harbour Lighthouse, Gdańsk
Poland

Eierland
The Netherlands

North Foreland, Broadstairs
United Kingdom

Postcards sent by Pawel (Poland), Debby (the Netherlands) and Laura (the UK).

Untitled

Folded card with matching stamps featuring George Morrison artworks, sent by Phillip (the USA). The painting featured on the card (Untitled, 1995) and on one of the stamps, completes the set in my collection.

Sunday Stamps | Westminster Bridge

 

Westminster Bridge from the Bridges of London set (2002) for today's Sunday Stamps. 

This one arrived on a letter in March 2023, with the dreadful pen abuse, and a weird QR label I have not seen again:

Charles III - UK

On 27 April I got my first stamp featuring Charles III, on a letter from Terry (the UK). Without any postmark on the envelope, alas.

Twin Mail

I sent this letter to Rosemary (Canada), bearing three black and white stamps featuring three men.

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I got this letter from her in return, bearing three (almost) black and white stamps featuring three women.

Read a Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Try to Fit More Lighthouses on a Postcard

Selfmade postcard sent by Alexandra (Germany) through the Postcrossing site. It features the Olhörn lighthouse, on the island of Föhr. The author of the picture is Harald Bickel.

And... how many lighthouses can you count on the back? It really surprised me!

Two German lighthouse on the stamps: Buk (Bastorf) and Staberhuk.

And even two Chinese stamps lighthouse-related: Chigua Reef (or Johnson South Reef) and Meiji (or Mischief) Reef, on 2016 stamps.

It Is Still the Year of the Rabbit, Isn't It?

Rabbits sent by Bryon (UN) and Fabienne (France). 

Sunday Stamps | Some Beards and Moustaches

A couple of bearded and/or moustachioed men on this envelope sent by Fabienne (France), arrived exactly a month ago.

Stamp issued in 1963, dedicated to Giusseppe Mazzini, belonging to the series Great Men of the EEC. Rome in the background of the stamp: the Via Appia and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.

Henri Rouart, was a French engineer, industrialist, painter and collector. He invented, among other things, the tubes of the Paris pneumatic post network, a system for the rapid delivery of mail in Paris in cylindrical boxes propelled by compressed air in an underground network of pipes. His friend Edgar Degas painted him in 1871. The stamp was issued ion 11 April 2022. 

Inside of the envelope I found a third man who could fit in this post: Gustave Geffroy, a French journalist, art critic, historian and novelist, painted by Paul Cézanne in 1895.

Visit Sunday Stamps to see more Beards and Moustaches on stamps.

Mail in Pink

Mail sent by Fabienne (France).

Alphabet 2023 | G Is for Good Hope

How many G can you count on this postcard mailed from Good Hope, Georgia?

On the matching stamps: Galaxy NGC 1316, Lou Gehrig, Judy Garland, Geronimo, and the state bird (Brown Thrasher) and flower (Cherokee Rose) of Georgia.

Another great postcard from Bryon's mail project!

A Letter Is a Message in a Bottle...

Alphabet 2023 | D Is for Dagsboro

And finally D arrived! Sent from Dagsboro, Delaware. 

Bryon wrote in the back the project is proving more difficult than he thought. But probably it is even more delightful. 

The stamps are full of D. Do you think this 1970 Dodge Challenger is old? So... what about the rest of stamps featuring Dinosaurs?

All the Royal Flowers!

So I eventually got, thanks to John (the UK), all the stamps from the Flowers series, issued by Royal Mail on 9 March 2023. This is the first issue that features the silhouette of King Charles III. This is the first change of silhouette in the UK stamps since 1968.

Which one is your favourite?

Alphabet 2023 | F Is for Flagler Beach

With the E still missing, the F postcard of Bryon's project (Alphabet2023) landed in my mailbox. And full of F, of course!

It got a beautiful round postmark from Flagler Beach, in Florida. And it bears stamps featuring author Edna Ferber, a Fox and a Flower -- with a big F too!