Sunday Stamps: Patterns

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool (for late April) day but sunny and clear.  It's time for Sunday Stamps.

The them for this week is Patterns.  This stumped me for a bit.  I finally settled on this stamp from Turkey:

This is from a series on Calligraphy, I believe.  I picked this because of the subtle pattern in the background.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 19

Hello again, it's time for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at See it on a Postcard.

The theme this week is Dinosaurs.

These stamps came to me on a Postcrossing card from Turkey.  I last showed them in 2012.  The T-rex looks scary!

Visit See it on a Postcard to see what else is being shared!

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 195

It's another gray day here in the American Midwest, chilly, and the days are getting shorter.  But let's cheer up and share some Sunday Stamps.

Our theme this week is fruits of the forest: nuts and berries.  I think this is a new theme for Sunday Stamps.

This is the common blackberry also know as Rubus fruticosus.  It is a widespread kind of bush or bramble (watch out for the thorns!) with delicious fruit.  This pretty stamp is from Turkey.

And now for an announcement.  We have had almost 4 years (almost 200 weeks) of Sunday Stamps, and it's been a wonderful time.  I have seen so many great stamps, learned so many things about different countries and their folkways, music, and important persons, among other topics.  However, over the last few months I have felt my interest wane, and it's been difficult to find themes where I have a stamp to share.  Thank you, for example, to Calantha who had many good suggestions, but I was able to use just one.  I am also participating less in Postcrossing, so the flow of stamps into my mailbox is decreasing.

Therefore it is time for me to announce that Sunday Stamps # 200 will be the last.  It is with some regret, and I will miss you all, 'meeting' on my computer on Sundays.  But I feel it is time to make the break. I have been turning this over in my head for weeks.  It's better to do this now, than for me to suddenly disappear without explanation some 10 weeks from now.  

I will be rejoining Beth and Postcard Friendship Friday, and dropping in on Sepia Saturday, so this blog will not disappear.  Thank you so much for your time, attention and most of all your contributions and kind comments.

Love to you all,

Viridian

Theme next week: Anything you wish.

Theme week after that: furniture (sort of by suggestion!)

Sunday Stamps # 176

A lovely June evening, the longest day of the year. Lovely long twilight evenings this time of year, followed by lightning bugs in the dark.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme this week is open, anything you wish.  It's always interesting to see what contributors choose for this.  Here is a stamp that would be hard to fit into a theme.

But it is one I would want to share with you all.  From a recent Postcrossing card.

What interesting stamp or stamps do you have to share this week?  Please join in, even for the first time.

Theme next week: archaeology / anthropology.  I have a stamp of early rock art.

Theme two weeks from now: sports.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 160

Good evening from a Saturday night in the Midwest USA. 

Batten down the hatches!  Lay in a supply of groceries and salt for the driveway, for a big storm is coming!!!  Yeah, maybe.  Every other 'big' storm this year has been a mere dribble of snow, compared to what it was supposed to be.

Well, it is time for Sunday Stamps, which we can participate in, from the coziness of our own homes.  Our theme this week is:  Anything you wish.  I will use this week to share a stamp that just arrived on a Postcrossing card from Turkey.  It is pretty but I do not know what it picturing.

There are stylized flowers here, but I am not sure if the pattern in the background has any significance.

Join me this week with any stamp you wish, especially if it seems to defy themes!

Theme next week: Women on stamps (March is Women's History Month)
Theme two weeks from now: Letters, postcards, and the post.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 84

You know you have been involved in postcards, stamps, and Postcrossing for too long, when you start dreaming you are in a store, and are excited about their postcard selection!  Yes this was my dream last night, a very detailed dream.  I was of course in the USA but they had so many interesting European viewcards of castles, and mountains.  I could not decide what to get.

It's a quiet August day, and I think many people are on vacation.  So let's take it easy this week.

This week our theme is open - anything you wish.

These dinosaurs arrived in my mail recently. Er, I mean dinosaur stamps, from Turkey.  Two classic dinosaur species, beloved of children everywhere.  What would you like to share with the group this week?

Theme next week:  Useful or practical things.  Interpret that however you will!

Please add your link below.  Thanks!

Viridian

Sunday Stamps #70

Theme this week: It is Mother's Day in the USA, and in other areas of the world. Let's share stamps of mothers and children; just children; just mothers (and Women's rights); children's art, even stamps that say LOVE.
I promised a heart-shaped stamp and here it is:

This postcrosser from Turkey kept the paper around the stamp intact.  I can't resist, I must also share the other stamps on the postcard:

You can't really tell, but these stamps are large.  They are at least 2 and a half inches wide.  They show some ships in a museum, but I can't tell much more than that.  There was barely enough room on the postcard for my address and a short message!

Theme next week: Share only stamps that have arrived in your mailbox since May 10.  I'd like to see a cross section of everyday stamps - even if it's just USA Liberty Bell forever stamps, machine printed stamps, and UK Machins.

Viridian



Sunday Stamps #25

In which the theme is summer, especially butterflies. Oh you must have butterfly stamps, somewhere!

These are from Turkey, and I am glad to have 4 different designs. Note each has the species name, and a design in the background.   I can't decide which I like best.

Next week: Sunday Stamps is taking a one-week break, as I am on vacation, and I do want to get away from my computer.  This meme will return July 10.  As July seems to be the month for national holidays, let's share some patriotic stamps on the 10th.

Viridian