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28 August 2022

callas

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Calla Lilies from 2022 and 2004 flowers for Sunday Stamps
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21 August 2022

birds

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Puffin! a colourful kingfisher  and a cheeky whooper swan some birds for Sunday Stamps
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14 August 2022

trees

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This thick, aged yew has a rugged beauty to it. Some slender birch trees bathed in an autumnal glow and cows resting under some very tall tr...
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07 August 2022

a walk in the snow

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When was the last time you built a snowman? or maybe that is too much work     Perhaps a long walk in the woods would be refreshing   A view...
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31 July 2022

picturesque

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  Luxembourg City as seen in 1995. I like the near uniform height of the buildings that allow the spires to rise above the rooftops. In the ...
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24 July 2022

complicated

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In 1980, I was living in Amsterdam and some friends and I had a much anticipated trip planned to go to Yugoslavia. Just days before we were ...
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17 July 2022

travel

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These new stamps "celebrate the golden age of travel". If anyone is paying attention to the news, this summer of 2022 is as far fr...
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10 July 2022

soaring

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Soaring high to see   the spires of Brno         and the wildlife of the forest     two monochrome stamps, coincidentally in the same colour...
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03 July 2022

a great man

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I have tickets for the theatre next month.  To see a play by this guy George Bernard Shaw The Doctor's Dilemma.  I can hardly wait! a li...
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26 June 2022

clouds

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  Lenticular clouds usually, when I think of Australia, I think of blue skies, like the one below in Tasmania, not the stormy sky of SA some...
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19 June 2022

beards and moustaches

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The legendary King Arthur and the wizard Merlin as imagined in 1985 Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, regarded as one of ...
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12 June 2022

Indigenous

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Mbukushu from South West Africa (Namibia) Xhosa from Transkei (South Africa) Mohawk leader from Canada some native women for Sunday Stamps
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05 June 2022

red

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  an infantry man resplendent in the kilt a grenadier ready for action               Montreal Canadiens hockey player, Guy Lafleur who recen...
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29 May 2022

look up, way up

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First UP, some balloons from 2001 followed by some roadside attractions with a ginormous coffee pot, a town's mascot 'happy rock...
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22 May 2022

sails

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sailing ships from Ukraine and, something unusual from Bermuda - green sails! sails for Sunday Stamps
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15 May 2022

post offices

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  Post Offices in India, from top left Lucknow, Cooch Behar, Nagpur, Udagamandalam, Delhi, Shimla Post Offices in Canada, from top left Mira...
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08 May 2022

light upon light

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one of the common inscriptions on Eid lanterns is "light upon light", a phrase referencing God's light illuminating heaven and...
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01 May 2022

International Workers' Day

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 From the traditional arts series, a bookbinder and this fun series from Brazil which included a carpenter and a dressmaker   people at work...
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24 April 2022

letters spelling words

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 Brody Neuenschwander designed this Flemish and French "write each other" stamp in 2012 These older Europa stamps were the same fo...
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17 April 2022

easter

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one of the first spring flowers - a pasque flower from Slovenia, designed by Julija Zornik (2007) a decorated egg from Poland, designed by A...
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10 April 2022

birds

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two Eurasian blue tits, hanging out together (1959) a kakapo, the world's largest flightless parrot (1986) and, finally, a pair of strol...
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