Sunday Stamps: Dragons

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

The theme today is dragons or saints (thinking of St. George).

I have a stamp from 2012 that I have shared before, but it's really beautiful:

From the US Postal Service:

"Dragons aren't always scary monsters. Consider the colorful creature depicted by the U.S. Postal Service® in its 2012 Year of the Dragon (Forever®) stamp, fifth in the Celebrating Lunar New Year series! The Year of the Dragon begins on January 23, 2012, and ends on February 9, 2013.

Combining original artwork by Kam Mak with two elements from the previous series of Lunar New Year stamps — Clarence Lee's intricate paper-cut design of a dragon and the Chinese character for "Dragon," drawn in grass-style calligraphy by Lau Bun — art director Ethel Kessler has created a culturally rich stamp design that celebrates the diversity of the American experience."

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Sunday Stamps: Trees or Leaves

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It's a nice sunny day in the American Midwest.  For the eclipse on Monday, we had only a few high clouds - perfect viewing weather.  What an amazing sight!

Anyhow, it's time for Sunday Stamps.  Our theme this week is trees or leaves.  I am going to bend the theme this week to stretch it to rose bushes:

An older Great Britain stamp -though I do not know how old.  Yes there are leaves in the stamp!

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Sunday Stamps: The Sun

 Good Day, and welcome to my stamp blog.  Tomorrow is the great American eclipse, and my area of the American Midwest is in the path of totality!  I'll be busy in the morning but take the afternoon off, to watch the eclipse from my own backyard.

So: the theme today is the Sun.  The US Postal Service has not issued any stamps for this, unlike the Canadians.  So I am going to sneak in this stamp:

A hummingbird on a sunflower.  Hey, it's the closest I could get.  This is from a recently released booklet of stamps.  Each stamp shows a hummingbird and flowers.  The image here is from the US Postal Service.

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Sunday Stamps: Flowers of Spring

 Happy Easter, for those who celebrate this holiday!

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

The theme is varied: chocolate, bunnies, eggs, flowers, churches.  I have a set of tulip stamps from the US Postal Service:

Closeups of colorful tulips, in a booklet.  Another view:

These two images are from the US Postal Service - I don't have these in hand.

Spring has sprung here - happy Spring to those of us in the northern hemisphere.

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Sunday Stamps: Green

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a cool cloudy day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday stamps.

The them this week is Green, or Irish stamps.  I don't have any ready scans of Irish stamps, so green it is.

This is one of a set of Spring stamps released just yesterday.  Each stamp shows a hummingbird and flowers.  This is the greenest one of the lot, and the image here is from the US Postal Service.

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Sunday Stamps: Flowers

 Good Day and welcome to my blog.  It is a sunny day, and warm (53 F) for this time of year.  It's time for Sunday Stamps.

The theme this week is flowers.

I have a stamp from the US Postal Service.  It will be available on March 22 this year.

This stamp is made for heavier or thicker items, such as wedding invitations, therefore the 2 ounce rate printed on it.  It is a forever stamp, always worth the 2 ounce rate.

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Sunday Stamps: Illustrations

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  It's a cool sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

The theme this week is illustrations.  I have a stamp issued last year, still available on the USPS website:

A stamp honoring children's book author Tomie dePaola (1934 - 2020). He has a varied body of work: folktales, legends, informational books, religious and holiday stories, and autobiographical tales.  The stamp art features a detail from the cover of Strega Nona, or "grandma witch"  who uses magic to help with matters of the heart and to cure her neighbors' ills.

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Sunday Stamps: Blue

 Good day, and welcome to a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest.  The snow that fell yesterday and the day before is not melting.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is blue.

I have a clever interpretation for you today:

Bluegrass music!  This stamp will be available on March 14, 2024.  The instruments pictured are the core of a bluegrass band.  The "high and lonesome" sound is from the Appalachian region of the USA.

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Sunday Stamps: Calligraphy

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It is a normal temperature today in the American Midwest, after two day of warmth (55 - 65 Degrees F).

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  The theme this week is calligraphy.  I don't have any stamps that feature a typeface that looks like handwriting, but I do have a stamp that may fit the theme:

A USA stamp available now, honoring women cryptologists.

From the USPS webpage: The stamp image:  the background is a WAVES recruitment poster, with an overlay of characters from the "Purple" code.  The Purple code was used by the Japanese government to encrypt diplomatic messages.  The key to this code was was discovered in Sept. 1940 by Genevieve Grotjan.  The USA could read and exploit the information in Japanese diplomatic messages for the rest of the war.

The women could never talk of their work, and did not do so, even after the war.

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Sunday Stamps: Lighthouses

 Good Day and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.

The theme this week is lighthouses.  Having no stamps in hand, I went searching on the internet and found an ebay seller with this set from 2021:

The whole sheet.  These are forever stamps.  The brick one is Navesink, New Jersey.

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Sunday Stamps: Trees

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool and cloudy wintery afternoon in the American Midwest.  It is time for Sunday Stamps. and the theme this week is trees.

I have some stamps I shared back in 2011:

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.

Our hostess has a wonderful se-tenant set of apricot trees over the 4 seasons.

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Sunday Stamps: Writers

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold cloudy day in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is writers or poets.  I have a stamp that will be released on Feb. 6, 2024, of the Canadian-American writer Saul Bellow:

Scenes of Chicago are in the background, a city he is closely associated with.  He won a number of literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize for Literature.  More on Saul Bellow is at the Wikipedia page for him.

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Sunday Stamps: Bridges

Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a bright cloudless day in the American Midwest - and 3 degrees F!

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  The theme is Bridges.  I am sharing a stamp from 2012, back in my Postcrossing days:

It's almost Chinese New Year, so it's appropriate to share this stamp of a beautiful arched bridge.

I hope your 2024 is going well so far!

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Sunday Stamps: Places of worship

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cloudy day in the American Midwest, and it is snowing lightly.  It's just enough to cover the grass, nothing major.

This week's theme is places of worship.  Having no stamps in hand, I searched on the internet and found a set of stamps for sale:

This is a set of stamps issued for Berlin, showing the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.  Partially destroyed during an air raid in 1943, it was rebuilt between 1959 and 1963, according to the Wikipedia page. Its nickname is the "hollow tooth".

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