Sunday Stamps #12

It's Spring - at least the calendar says so.

These older stamps from Poland came from a lot I purchased on ebay.  The trees shown are pear (on the left) and cherry (on the right).  Thank you to Google translate to help me translate the Polish!  I certainly didn't recognize the latin species names.

The sun is shining but it is cold here in the midwest of  the USA.  At least the snow is gone, and the daffodils are up, though not quite blooming.  It will be awhile until my ornammental pear tree and crabapple tree  in the yard bloom.  There is still snow in some parts of the USA and Canada.  Take heart though, April is almost here.

Share with us your Spring stamps - they don't have to be flowers.  If you are in the Southern hemisphere, Fall stamps are appropriate too.  The linky list will be open until Midnight USA Eastern time.

                           

Viridian

Theme next week:  anything you wish.

Cherry Blossom Time

This postcard arrived in my mailbox recently, from a Postcrosser from Osaka, Japan. She wrote that she was looking forward to cherry blossom time, which sounds very beautiful. How wonderful is it that she sent me a a delicate image, and added two stamps featuring cherry blossoms on the reverse?

Modifying my stamp rant a bit, could I do something like this with international air mail stamps? No. With domestic postage stamps? Maybe, if I buy Post Office products described in a previous post. Kelp Forest postcards, with added Kelp Forest or lighthouse stamps, for example.

Viridian

Postcard Friendship Friday: Think Spring

No postmark or stamp, addressed to Miss Elizabeth Heurton.

Thursday Jan. 2 1913. to Dear Elizabeth, With lots of love for a very happy birthday. With love from her baby sister Louise.

This is written in a lady's handwriting, so I think it's from one grown up sister to another.

We have a dusting of snow on the ground here (!) and my daffodils are ruined. So I really need a colorful Springy postcard.

I'm joining in Postcard Friendship Friday hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy. Please check out the other participants.

Viridian