vintage and contemporary postcards and stamps from around the world
21 October 2024
20 October 2024
lilac
This colourful beauty is a lilac breasted roller. They range from eastern Africa along the coast to northern South Africa. They are not known to habitate near humans, which is a shame for us.
19 October 2024
17 October 2024
drinks
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)
16 October 2024
14 October 2024
quadrilateral
Saskatchewan, the only province in Canada whose borders do not follow any natural geographical landmarks. It is also only one of two landlocked provinces.
13 October 2024
crops
A 1961 stamp honouring the roles grassland and livestock play in American Agriculture. Painting of The Trail Boss by Charles M Russell.
Maize is the most important cereal crop in Ghana
The bright yellow of rapeseed fields in Saskatchewan. Painting by Dorothy Knowles
11 October 2024
strip hotel
the Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip is no more
10 October 2024
pee-KAHN or PEA-can
09 October 2024
07 October 2024
two names, three countries
06 October 2024
stars
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
05 October 2024
03 October 2024
only fruits
02 October 2024
30 September 2024
29 September 2024
at sea
Barbuda is the smaller of the twin islands of Antigua and Barbuda
28 September 2024
27 September 2024
26 September 2024
covered and swinging
Howe Covered Bridge in Vermont, 1879
Chattanooga, Tennessee
(I love saying this name!)
next week, we cross the bridge to find some food
25 September 2024
pink granite
a rather grand building for a post office... built in a Romanesque Revival style around 1902
24 September 2024
22 September 2024
the colour of happiness
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.
In nearby Hungary, this hybrid tea rose is front and centre on this 1962 stamp, one of six in a series.
21 September 2024
19 September 2024
autumn splendour
"Remember Your Friends - Send Post Cards"
16 September 2024
15 September 2024
descending dragon
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
14 September 2024
12 September 2024
to infinity and beyond
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