Sunday Stamps; Lighthouses

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We had a few days of warm weather in the American Midwest, and some buds have opened.  But it's back to cool weather today.

It's Sunday and time for Sunday Stamps.  The theme is lighthouses.

I have a stamp from Taiwan, which I have shared before:

No water in sight, so perhaps this lighthouse is up on a cliff.  A stamp from my Postcrossing days.

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Sunday Stamps; Cold vacation spots

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I was traveling today so I am getting to Sunday Stamps late.

The theme is winter or cold vacation spots.

Perhaps hiking or skiing in these snowy woods.  Perhaps you might see:

Some white tailed deer.  I prefer a warm sunny vacation spot myself.

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Sunday Stamps: Warm vacation spots

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool but sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is warm vacation locations. This will be followed by cold vacation locations next week.

I have one beach stamp - I assume it's a vacation location.

This is Bay of Fires, Tasmania.  The beach looks very empty but inviting.  This is a stamp from my Postcrossing days.

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Sunday Stamps: Famous Women

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is famous women, and our hostess has shared a famous astronaut.  This made me think of a stamp I have shared before, from Russia:

This is Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to have flown in space (in June 1963). Still the only woman to fly a solo mission (at 26 years old!).  This stamp is for the 50th anniversary of that flight.  Her call sign was Chaika  or "seagull" therefore the bird appears on this stamp.

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Sunday Stamps: No English words

 Good day and welcome to my stamp blog.  It is a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is "no English words".  This made me think of Russian or Soviet stamps.

A stamp featuring children's art, from the CCCP (that is, the USSR).  It is from 1979.  (I have featured this stamp before.)

No English words, and also the Cyrillic alphabet, so I am really lost.  But it's a sweet image.

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Sunday Stamps: Flags

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog.  It is snowing briskly under a gray sky in the American Midwest, and the roads are slippery.  Time to stay inside and post to Sunday Stamps.

I am sharing a stamp from a postcard I received from Postcrossing, some years ago now.  But this country is back in the news:

(I have shared this several times.)  I like that this Postcrosser included the surrounding printed material, so that you can really see the waving flag.

And, a standard flag stamp from the USA:

This scan is from the US Postal Service.

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PS.  I dislike the current political direction the USA is going, but that is all I will say about that.

Sunday Stamps: Minerals & Gems

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cloudy Sunday and about 33 F here in the American Midwest.  Later today will be the Superbowl for American football, but more importantly (to me), it's time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is minerals and/or gems, a favorite theme of mine.  Here are some I last shared in 2011:

From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin.   I must have purchased these in a grouping from a stamp dealer, maybe off Ebay.  I never received a postcard from Benin when I was in Postcrossing.

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Sunday Stamps: Reptiles/snakes

Good day, and welcome to another cool cloudy Sunday in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.

It's Lunar New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Snake, and the USPS has issued stamps for the occasion.  As requested by Finnbadger, here is the scan of the full sheet, from the USPS:

Their scan of one stamp:

The USPS calls this a mask of a snake, but it sure doesn't look like one.  And the foil aspects of the stamps don't come through in these scans.

Happy Lunar New Year!

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Sunday Stamps: Composer Allen Toussaint

 Good day, and welcome to a cloudy day in the American Midwest.  It's about 33 degrees F.

It's Sunday, and time for Sunday Stamps.  I have a great stamp today for the theme of authors, poets, composers.  It's a new stamp, to be issued on Jan. 30 this year.  This image is from the USPS.

Allen Toussaint is associated with the rhythm and blues scene in New Orleans.  He was a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer.  His Wikipedia page is HERE.

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Sunday Stamps: Birds

 Good Day, and welcome to a cold cloudy day in the American Midwest.  Tonight it will get down to -1 degrees F and be very cold for 2 days.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  The prompt this week is birds.  I have a stamp issued as part of a set in 2024 by the US Postal Service:

I don't have this in hand; the image is from the USPS.  This is a female ruby throated hummingbird.  Ah, Summer days!

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