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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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Trees

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's about 30 degrees F in the Great American Midwest, and it is snowing gently.  We expect 2 -3 inches.  It's very pretty, on the trees and bushes, but driving could be tricky.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme this week is trees.

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.

In spring we'll see flowering trees like this.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Trees

 Good day from a cool and rainy Midwest.  Not much time to blog today, but I do want to share some stamps.

Two flowering trees from Poland.  I have shared these long ago.  They came from a packet of stamps I got on ebay.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Science

 I am happy to join in this week!

This is a stamp I have shared before, but perfect for today.  A stamp from Poland:

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) is perhaps most famous for his book the On Origin of Species but he wrote many other works. According to Wikipedia "His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author."..."In 1871 he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil." Yes earthworms.  He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Sunday Stamps II "P"

Good day and welcome to my postcard and stamp blog.  Today I am participating in Sunday Stamps, hosted at SeeitonaPostcard.

This stamp I received via Postcrossing some time ago - a stamp from Poland.  Pretty flowers!

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Sunday Stamps # 74

To celebrate the Transit of Venus, let's share astronomy stamps, or science stamps, or stamps of scientists. I do not have astronomy stamps, at least not handy, but I do have stamps of a famous scientist.

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) is perhaps most famous for his book the On Origin of Species but he wrote many other works. According to Wikipedia "His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author."..."In 1871 he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil." Yes earthworms.  He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

A few years ago, during the celebrations of 200 years since Darwin's birth, I was joking with a scientific colleague of mine.  "So, Dr. M., you are almost 50, about when Darwin published On the Origin of Species.  And hey, Barack Obama was under 50 when he became president, and won a Nobel Peace Prize.  What have you done lately?"  "Speak for yourself," he replied. "You are almost 50 too!"

Please join me in this celebration of Science and Scientists.

Theme next week:  Food and drink of all sorts.  Also: keep your eyes open for Olympics stamps, to be featured later in July.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 73

Today's theme is anything you wish.

I am sharing with you a stamp from Poland, with some pretty flowers in a basket.  Appropriate for this Springtime day!  Please join me this weekend in sharing any stamp you wish to share.

Theme next week:  Tuesday is the transit of Venus, a once in a lifetime event. (DO NOT look at the Sun directly, either with or without binoculars or a telescope!  You will hurt your eyes.)  To celebrate, let's share astronomy stamps, or science stamps, or stamps of scientists.  I myself don't have astronomy stamps, but I do have some science stamps.

Add your link below.

Viridian

Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!

Undivided back, never mailed. There is Arabic script on the back too. A French caption - in honor of our hostess perhaps? Entrance to the grand temple in Karnak in Upper Egypt.

I sent this through Postcrossing to a Postcrosser in Poland who is a graduate student in archeology. She is studying Ancient Greece but loved the card.

Happy PFF! Summer is almost here in the USA!

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Viridian

Postcrossing week

This week I will be showing postcards I have received as part of my participation in Postcrossing. Above is a postcard from Poland.
From the website:

Postcrossing: "A project that allows anyone to receive postcards (real ones, not electronic) from random places in the world."
"The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world.
Why? Because, like the author, there are lots of people who like to receive real mail. The element of surprise of receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises - and who wouldn't like that? "

I have sent about 150 postcards, and have received about 140, from 42 different countries. I look forward to collecting the mail every day, for among the junk mail and bills there may be a postcard with a cheerful message on it for me.
The ones I send out tell a little about me, and something about world peace.

viridian