One of the more interesting and delightfully fun advertising campaigns
or maybe you'd prefer something warming like hot chocolate with marshmallows (personally, I would skip the marshmallows)
One of the more interesting and delightfully fun advertising campaigns
Saskatchewan, the only province in Canada whose borders do not follow any natural geographical landmarks. It is also only one of two landlocked provinces.
A 1961 stamp honouring the roles grassland and livestock play in American Agriculture. Painting of The Trail Boss by Charles M Russell.
The bright yellow of rapeseed fields in Saskatchewan. Painting by Dorothy Knowles
the Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip is no more
Salome Bey (October 10, 1933 - August 9, 2020)
singer, songwriter, composer, actress
The stars in Empress Elisabeth's hair are considered the most famous piece of jewellery in Austria
Barbuda is the smaller of the twin islands of Antigua and Barbuda
Howe Covered Bridge in Vermont, 1879
Chattanooga, Tennessee
(I love saying this name!)
next week, we cross the bridge to find some food
a rather grand building for a post office... built in a Romanesque Revival style around 1902
A presshouse - wine press house, or wine press - in the eastern state of Burgenland, Austria. There seems to be a few presshouses offered as holiday villas. As Burgenland is the least populous state, this holiday home might be the perfect quiet, peaceful place to get away from it all. And drink a little wine.
I had this post ready before Typhoon Yagi slammed into Vietnam leading to an ever rising death toll, evacuations and untold damage to towns and villages and infrastructure
Opened on the eve of the Summer Games in 2004 for the Olympic Flame to cross
joining Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirio on mainland Greece over the Gulf of Corinth
no longer in use, this bridge opened in 1929, two months before the Wall St crash
postmarked 1954
a bridge that was started in 1954 and completed in 1957, the five mile long Mackinac connects the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan over the Straits of Mackinac that separates Lakes Huron and Michigan
The smallest province in Canada, PEI is known for its beaches, red soil, potatoes and seafood. Sadly, Green Gables is not represented on this postcard
Green Island is 8 miles, or 13 kms, off the coast of Cairns and maybe has a population of 20? (according to 2021 census). It was formed about 6,000 years ago by waves depositing sand, coral and other debris onto its coral foundation.
This would be one place I'd like to see, but the world on stamps is huge and I, for one, am excited for next week to see what sites are on your wish list.
an aerial view for Sunday Stamps