green dragon

from Belarus
a friendly fire-bfreathing dragon

Sunday Stamps - churches

Pretty in Pink

Die Kirche Maria Kirchental (1701) in St Martin bei Lofer, about an hour north of Salzburg. It is a popular destination for pilgrims as well as hikers where it is often a starting point for tours up the Lofer Mountains.

beaches

 a retro travel poster postcard with a cute teardrop trailer

cars are allowed on Sauble Beach, though they seem to be off this postcard

instead we have some 60s era bathing suits

A typical scene, on the wide, white, sandy shores of SAUBLE BEACH — the Daytona of Canada on Lake Huron. Noted for its fine bathing facilities, and seven mile long sand beach.  Won't you join us? — the water's warm, too! Ample accommodations are available at Modern Lodges, Motels, Cottages, and Cabins.

something for Sepia Saturday for the last days of summer, beach weather.

whale sounds

from China

zuiderkerk

The 17thC protestant church with the Groenburgwal Canal, scene of the famous Monet painting.

Omsk

c 1935?
Bridge over the River Om with Ilinskaya Church in background, and an elongated aerial in foreground.

marketplace

The Vic Market is the only 19th century building left in the CBD of Melbourne. it features over 600 vendors spread out over two city blocks.

ayr

The Belleisle House Hotel, Ayr
with guests sitting outside.

In June of 2019, a fire on the roof destroyed the 18th century mansion.

Sunday Stamps - paintings

Although I haven't seen any Cornelius Krieghoff paintings in a very long time I always associate his

old fashioned winter scenes with old Christmas cards and calendars. 

The one above is the Blacksmith's Shop (c1871) issued in 1972 a century after his death

The one below, issued in 2000, is an 1858 painting of Niagara Falls.

for Sunday Stamps - paintings

book shops

Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon

Parnussus Books in Nashville, Tennessee

marche

an 1890s view of Marche St Gery which was prosperous until WWII. It finally closed in 1977, but has now been repurposed as an exhibition and event centre.

glittering gold

Lord Murugan, Batu Caves; Theon Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur;
Masjid Jamek, Kuala Lumpur

rabbits on trams

by Irina Zeniuk
do any of them know who is driving??

pandas on trams

pandas across Hong Kong tram

parliament

An aerial view of the Parliament Buildings with the library (the conical looking building) in the rear facing the river

Sunday Stamps - commemorative

On the Tom River in Siberia is a town called Tomsk which celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2004. The stamp shows the City Government Building, the Church of the Resurrection, the Tomsk State University, and an ancient wooden building.  Tomsk is a university city, with 15% of the population being students. It is also well-known for its many wooden houses with elaborately carved trim.

for Sunday Stamps - commemorative

süß

from Germany, another wee lamb
Deichkind is a hip-hop / electro band ...

city hall

kelpies

Kelpies are shape shifting water spirits.

These kelpies rise up as monuments to horse powered heritage in Scotland. 

Designed by sculptor Andy Scott, they are 30 metres tall.

red umbrella

le pantheon

Originally built as a church, it is now a secular mausoleum — which meant that the great Gothic windows had to be blocked up. Some of the people buried here include Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Pierre and Marie Curie,

Sunday Stamps - red

These gates guard the eight largest Chinatowns in Canada and this stamp shows the one in Mississauga, a city just west of Toronto. It was built in 1987 using only timber and no nails — only wooden studs — based on traditional Chinese building techniques. It is 43 feet tall. The stamp was designed by Albert Ng for the 2013 Gates of Chinatown series. The other gates are in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

For Sunday Stamps - the colour RED 

Banff

Village of Banff and Cascade Mt., Banff National Park
Showing Banff Ave over the Bow River

flat

the fields of Saskatchewan, a province in the middle of the country

second longest

Another covered bridge, but this one doesn't have a stamp dedicated to it.
The Upper Dorchester Covered Bridge near Sackville New Brunswick.
Memramcook River.
Known as the "second longest covered bridge in the world"

kissing bridge

A vintage chrome postcard of he West Montrose Covered Bridge near Kitchener, Ontario

and a 2019 issue of the same bridge on a stamp.

a kiss (in relative privacy inside the bridge) was required as a toll for crossing. Local girls learned to be wary when their escorts horse stopped inside the bridge without any command from the driver.

rooster

a Year of the Rooster for 2017

by Swedish artist Martin Morck featuring a Hedemora which is perhaps the most cold hardy chicken in the world.

television

from Russia

not sure whose eyes are wider
from the Netherlands

Sunday Stamps - water

Here we have a 1951, green tinted view of Lake Towada as part of Japan's  National Parks series. It is a crater lake and the largest on Honshu Island. The lake and the surrounding forest became a National Park in 1936 and this stamp commemorates its 15th anniversary. An Imperial Japanese Army Air Force plane which crashed in 1943 was found at the bottom of the crater in 2010 and recovered in 2012.

for Sunday Stamps - water