Toads & Frogs

European Green Toad (Buffo viridis)

Who knows what a Flickerdick is?

Sent by Bryon (Canada) and Heleen (the Netherlands).

A green frog...

Oh, and there is another one on the selvedge of this French stamp!

Sunday Stamps | J Is for Jordan

Barbara Jordan (1936 – 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction and the first southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives.

More J-stamps on A-Z Sunday Stamps. 

The Evil Garden

All the information, rules, faq and last year's winners: here.

Five Days of Mail in September

(This is my 2025 postal project.)

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Autumn Colours

This envelope made a long trip. It was sent by Phillip (the USA) on 2 December 2024. It arrived more than two months later, on 10 February 2025, well after the Autumn... and almost after the winter!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: COLOURS OF AUTUMN

• Week 1 - Orange
• Week 2 - Yellow
• Week 3 - Red
• Week 4 - Brown
• Week 5 - Halloween or Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

It Is World Postcard Day!

Are you going to celebrate it?

Nice to see this guy again, sent by Bryon (USA) few days ago. The second postcard was sent by Imma (PC) in 2024.

Don't You?

«Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.»

Ernest Hemingway

Back to School!

Uris Library, McGraw Tower (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA). Postcards sent by Phillip.

University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Postcard sent by Heleen.

Sunday Stamps | I Is for Isabella II

The first Spanish stamps reproduce the image of Isabella II, queen o Spain from 1833 until 1868. The same stamp was issued in different colours and face values. 

Spain was the tenth country to adopt the innovative system ot the stamps, and the first Spanish stamps were issued on 1st January 1850. Until 1865, stamps were presented without perforation, with a separation between stamps of one mil·límetre, and had to be separated by scissors. 

6.227.090 of these black stamps were sold during 1850. However, only five envelopes bearing it have survived.

On 7 January 2025, this self-adhesive stamp was issued to commemorate the 175th anniversary.

(This is the I-post for A-Z Sunday Stamps.)

Reading in Pink

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Recent Post Labels

Croatia

Hungary

Italy

Portugal

United Kingdom

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Traditional Dresses

Urk (Netherlands)

Ohcejohka/Utsjoki (Lapland, Finland)

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: LEARNING

• Week 1 - Legends, Children's Stories
• Week 2 - Famous People
• Week 3 - National Parks
• Week 4 - History (Could Be Historical Buildings)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Orange Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

What Do You Futz Around With?

«"You like futzing around with postage stamps?"

She gave me a blank, frowning look. "What do you futz around with, huh? Hitting an innocent little white ball with a long stick? Soldering wires together and playing four-track-stereo? Slamming some dumb little car around corners, upshifting and downshifting? Are you a gun futz or a muscle futs?"

"I think I know where you're going with that"

"Where I'm going is that there's no list to tell you where you rate on some kind of scale of permanent values and find out how unimportant you are. But I can tell you what nobody ought to be doing."

"What's that?"

"Nobody ought to be sneering at anybody else way of life."»

John D. Macdonald, The Scarlet Ruse

Autumn Is Here

Today is the first day of Autumn in this hemisphere. I hope the Autumn mail will arrive safe and sound!