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The theme is: the Lunar New Year (the Ram).  Hopefully I can link this up early and be one of the first Americans to show this year's stamp:

No rams on it but:

In the United States and elsewhere, the occasion is marked in various ways across many cultures; parades featuring enormous and vibrantly painted papier-mache dragons, parties, and other special events are common. Many families set out a candy tray, like the one depicted in the stamp art, to provide guests with an assortment of dried fruits and candies for a sweet beginning to the new year. Drums are played to celebrate this time of renewed hope for the future, with drumsticks sometimes painted red for luck. Firecrackers are set off to ward off evil spirits. Red envelopes (hong bao) containing money are given as gifts to children and loved ones.  (From the USPS website)

Any reason for a party!

Visit Violet sky at See it on a Postcard for more stamps.

Viridian

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Violet Sky is hosting Sunday Stamps now on her blog, See It On a Postcard - visit her there and see who else is playing this week!

envelope 100 has already shown these stamps, hope you don't mind seeing it again:

These are the US Postal Service's "love" stamps for this year.  I think I like the red one better. :-)

Hope you had and are having a pleasant weekend.

Viridian

in the very cold midwest USA

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Violet Sky is now hosting Sunday Stamps - Click on the link and see who else is participating this week.

My stamp is a high value one, and the scan is from the US Postal Service:

(I don't actually have this stamp in hand.)

This expensive stamp is for Priority Mail.  Let's see what the US Postal Service has to say about the Glade Creek Grist Mill:

"With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service® celebrates one of West Virginia's most photographed landmarks, the Glade Creek Grist Mill.

The stamp art captures the historic, aged beauty of the mill in its pristine setting along Glade Creek. The water flows by the mill and around boulders and rock formations along the creek bed. Surrounding the mill are trees in early autumn colors of greens, yellows, and oranges.

Located in Babcock State Park in Fayette County, West Virginia, the mill looks as though it has existed on that site for hundreds of years. In reality, it is a modern re-creation, completed in 1976, of a mill that had once stood nearby on Glade Creek. The look is authentic, however, as the new mill was constructed from parts taken from three historic West Virginia mills.

Mills were once the center of local farming communities, offering the necessary service of grinding wheat, corn, and other grains, a backbreaking task when done by hand. The mill stands as a monument to the more than 500 West Virginia gristmills that were in operation at the turn of the 20th century."

Viridian