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This pine marten is only found on the island of Newfoundland, one of only 14 native mammals on the island.   They are about the size of a sm...

Sultan Ismail ibni Almarhum of the Malaysian state of Kelantan in 1937. He was born in 1880 and died of TB in 1940. For Sunday Stamps - roya...

Razvan Popescu illustrated this Postcrossing stamp from Romania issued in 2017. for Sunday Stamps - the letter P  

  From 1982 architecture series Built in the 1930s and 1940s: Falling Water (F.L. Wright), Gropius House (W. Gropius), Illinois Institute of...

Farmers and workers labouring in Tunisia on this 1957 stamp for the first anniversary of independence. I'm not sure about that man wield...

In 1957 this set of hunting, fishing, skiing and swimming stamps were issued for the four seasons of recreational sports.  I like the swimme...

Brock's Monument can be found at Queenston Heights, Ontario (near Niagara Falls) underneath which lie his remains. He was killed by a gu...

There was a time when the post travelled by balloon In 1955 France issued a stamp to commemorate 85 years of airmail service.  In 1870 durin...

A semi-postal stamp from 2020 for the Canada Post Community Foundation features a 'diverse community of animals living peacefully in a ...

The quintessential Canadian girl beloved by the Japanese This was a joint issue from 2008 for the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables ...

  A short beaked common dolphin. They are one of three species of dolphins in the Black Sea (the others being bottlenose and harbour porpois...

Czechoslovakian stamps come first to mind when thinking of unusual and interesting typefaces  from the cosmonaut series with Gagarin of 1964...

  Garajonay National Park in the Canary Islands is 40 sq. km. This stamp shows some of the large rock formations which are former volcanoes...

  The St Lawrence Seaway is a system of locks, canals and channels that allows for ocean going ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to th...

We have had a snow storm this week and now everything is covered in white. I eagerly await spring and some fresh green leaves. This low valu...

February is really not the month for roses, yet for many, this is the go to flower for Valentine's o my luve's like a red, red rose ...

For the Year of the Goat 2015, from Philippines. Plus a goat-antelope from western Russia         On the left is the world's largest mou...

coming indoors CATURDAY

I thought wearing a crown might be heavy and awkward, but this basket maker has a much more awkward physical load on his head! From 1953. It...

why are there so many sad kitties? CATURDAY

E Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was a Canadian poet of mixed Mohawk and English heritage.  She was a poet, writer and performer at a time when...

Dick Whittington and his cat CATURDAY

Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre in the French Quarter of New Orleans, first opened in 1916. The courtyard is considered one of the most be...

This is a self portrait of Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967) . Titled At the Dressing Table, 1909 . She was born into an artistic family of ...

and a lovely bowl CATURDAY

somptueues chevelure verte sumptuous green hair Leonard Cohen

yummy, buttery goodness

  I wish you all the joy that you can wish

  A spherical pressurized aluminum gondola took Auguste Piccard up into the stratosphere in for the first time in 1931.  He would make 27 tr...

methinks this cat knows a secret CATURDAY

A majestic life sized horseman on a near vertical cliff from around the  8th century.

All steel, Diesel electric ferry "WESTSIDE" Largest, most modern passenger and automobile ferry on the Mississippi River ...

Bauhaus, also known as the International Style  Dessau, Germany Bauhaus, also known as the International Style

Wawa needed to have something to attract people to visit their small town after the new Trans Canada Highway diverted traffic. In Ojibway ...

It's been a very long time since horses were allowed on this bridge.  

  In 2006 when this set of wine and cheese stamps was issued, the Canada Post website claimed 170 wineries in Canada. That number seemed a l...