Sunday Stamps: the letter "K"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

It is a cool morning in the American Midwest, but entirely appropriate for mid-April.  Trees are blooming, and I saw some lilacs beginning to flower.

It's Sunday, and time for Sunday stamps.  We are up to the letter K.  Here are two stamps from Kenya:

The stamps showcase the minerals Amethyst and Tourmaline, and the cut gems made from these minerals.  I don't have these in hand.  I must have downloaded these images some time ago.

I will take the next 3 weeks off, as I am on a big trip to Italy and Switzerland.  I am NOT bringing my laptop computer!  See you later in May.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: the letter "M"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Today started out cloudy, but now we have sunshine in the American Midwest.  And temperatures are about normal for this time of year.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.

In the tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter M.  I have a first day cover of Minerals:

From 1974, long before I had my short stint of collecting stamps.  This must have been a gift, but I am not sure from whom!  Still, a beautiful grouping.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 38

This week's theme at See it on a Postcard is one of my favorites - Rocks and Minerals!

From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin.  I last showed these stamps in August of 2011.

Visit See it on a Postcard this week to see who else is playing!

Viridian

Sunday Stamps #117

Oh my, I have been looking forward to this week's Sunday Stamps.

Our theme is minerals, rocks, geology, environment.

As some of you have deduced, I love this topic!  Imagine my excitment recently upon receiving a card from the Ukraine, and turning it over to find:

Stamps of tiger-eye and Beryl (I think).  The stamps appear iridescent and have that 3-D look to them, which the scan cannot capture.  Marvelous!  And triangular too!  Join me this week, and don't be afraid to interpret this theme broadly.

Theme next week:  Lighthouses, or other public structures.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps #22

Hello and welcome to the theme of anything you wish. Here is one kind of stamp I like:

Minerals!  Ok it may not by your favorite subject but it is for me.  From upper left, and moving clockwise: gyps, or gypsum, amethyst, malachit or malachite, and halite or salt.  Gypsum by the way is mined and ground up and used in drywall (sheet rock in some places). Who knew?

 This is an older set (Clue: the DDR) with different denominations on each.  In fact this gives me an idea.  The theme next week will be a set of stamps that really should be pictured together, as the design is continued from one stamp to the next.  Any topic. These are se-tenant stamps, correct?  Remember I amass stamps, I don't seriously collect them.

Viridian

This is a postcard of a Lake Superior agate that someone has polished to show the beauty inside.  There are beaches on Lake Superior where one used to be able to look at the pebbles and find some that, not looking like this, at least had the potential to polish up like this.  I suspect those beaches have been pretty picked over by now.

I saw this postcard in the postcard gallery on Postcrossing and saved an image for myself. :-0

Thank you Beth for hosting Postcard Friendship Friday!
Remember: My meme Sunday Stamps opens again late Saturday night.
Theme this week: Presidents/world leaders/statesmen or stateswomen.  You don't need to follow the theme however.
Viridian
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