Sunday Stamps: the Letter "F"

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  

Past warm days have led to some of my bulbs sprouting.  It is cooler today, but there are warmer days ahead.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter F.  I have a stamp from the US Postal Service, issued last year:

This is a Forever stamp, worth the current first-class postage - NOT 5 cents.  It is a modern interpretation of an 1875 stamp of Benjamin Franklin - a Founding Father though not a US President.

More information on this stamp is on the USPS web page.  The image above is from their webpage.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter "E"

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  Warmer weather has been replaced by colder air, but Spring is coming.

In our tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter E.

A stamp issued in 2013, and shared by me before, but appropriate for today.  A stamp honoring Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.  More is described in the Wikipedia entry.

"The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free." (From Wikipedia)

Let us not forget the past, even when it is difficult.

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Sunday Stamps: the Letter "D"

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Light snow flurries today in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday stamps.

An easy one today:  A collection of Dahlias on stamps from the US Postal Service:

And all together:

These images are from the USPS website - I don't have these in hand.

I am looking forward to Spring.  Dahlias bloom later in the summer however.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter "C"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog!  It is warming up in the American Midwest.

It's Sunday morning, and time for Sunday Stamps.

We are on to the letter C.  Checking out the trusty US Postal Service website, I found this stamp commemorating Colorado statehood:

showing some of the mountains Colorado is known for.  But keep in mind eastern Colorado is vast flat plains.

In searching through stamps shared before on this blog, I found a stamp from the Cayman Islands:

Next week: the letter "D".

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