Today's Sunday Stamps theme is waterfalls and rivers.
I think this extreme sport counts. This is Descenso de Barrancos, issued by Correos in 2006, and sent by Eva. Whatever this is (waterfall, river, rapids?), it looks horrendous :)
This stamp is Harrison Wright Falls in Pennsylvania. I'll take fast running water as a spectator sport, please.
It arrived on this lovely February exchange envelope from Maggie M.
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This week's Sunday Stamps theme is lighthouses.
The German definitive series 'World of Letters' includes this beauty, which I was lucky to receive.
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The year of the snake continues with many twists and turns, and it is only March!
Stay calm and enjoy great mail instead.
Fafa sent me this great postcard
Accompanied by this beautiful lunar new year stamp.
Merci!
Today's Sunday Stamps theme is famous women.
Eva sent me two women on this envelope made from a calendar page.
The women featured are:
María Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo was the first Spanish woman to obtain a pilot's license - in 1928. You can read a little bit more about this aviation pioneer on her wikipedia page. Iberia airlines named one of their planes after her.
Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was a social activist, a feminist, and writer. She was a prodigy who coud read at the age of two, spoke four languages by the age of eight, and finished law school at seventeen. Sadly she died aged eighteen, shot to death by her own mother. You can read more about her unconventional life on her wikipedia page.
Although fictional, Alice from Lewis Carroll's novels is even more famous.
The third stamp features the date 8 March, International Women's Day.
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Today's postcard hunt prompt is maps of states/provinces/counties.
Here's an Ohio map postcard I've sent out in the past.
This great internationaal stamp from Nederland arrived, courtesy of Heleen, accompanied with nice selvage to celebrate jaar van die slang. Included are the Chinese characters for snake.
In contrast, the postcard is all in English, the language of Postcrossing.
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