Big Caturday

 Amazing envelope and stamps from Fafa!

Sunday Stamps on Monday

 This week's theme is rivers. Here's a stamp received from Fafa quite some time ago.

This stamp issued in 2016 celebrates the reopening of part the Bièvre River (historically a tribute of the river Seine) in Val-de-Marne, after being covered over for many decades.

Explore the links to more stamps featuring rivers at See it on a Postcard

It's still Christmas - Little Bear

 First mail of the year from Fafa arrived in this great envelope

Christmas Winnie the Pooh, who is, delightfully, Winnie l'Ourson (little bear or cub) in French. My favorite name for the characters in French is Coco Lapin for Rabbit. Ooh, la, la!

W is for water

 The theme for this week's Sunday Stamps is the letter W.

I have two beautiful stamps from France to share. The first commemorates the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference, held in Nice this year. The conference goals were to work on ocean conservation and sustainability. 

The second, from Fafa, focuses on conservation of the unique biodiversity of Mediterranean nature reserves. 

To see more W stamps, explore the links at See it on a Postcard. 

Ssserpent Sssaturday

 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!

Chinese Calligraphy

 Today's Sunday Stamps theme is calligraphy, and I always admire beautifully drawn Chinese characters (also called logographs).

Thanks to Fafa, I have this wonderful Year of the Dragon mini-sheet to share.

For links to more calligraphy on stamps, head over to See it on a Postcard.

Sunday stamps - places of worship

 For today's theme, I am sharing a single stamp from France thanks to Fafa.

The church, Église Saint-Pierre (St Peter's church) in Riga, Latvia with snow. Construction began in 1209, and you can access the Wikipedia page for more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Church,_Riga

Go to Sunday Stamps for more links on today's theme. https://seeitonapostcard.blogspot.com

Once upon a time...

 Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods in Egypt.

They have not forgotten this.

Amazing pyramid, stamps and contents arrived from Fafa, with a feline face on the back!

And more ancient Egypt via postcrossing

Thank you, and happy Caturday to those who celebrate.

New(ish) stamps

 Today's prompt for Sunday Stamps is new and recent issues. I decided to interpret 'new' as also meaning latest to show up in my mail box. And it is an extension of last week's theme of Christmas, as these all arrived on cards that arrived between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Finally some of the Otters in Snow arrived - two of the four stamps. The holiday postmark obscures them a little bit, however I still love them. they were the final stamp issue by USPS in 2021 - October 12.

And a beauty from Fafa - there is a subtle foil effect on the numbers that is hard to appreciate in a photo. the stamp celebrates 500 years of the tradition of Christmas trees. 

The stamp was issued 22 November, 2021.

Bonus image - last week another card from the UK arrived - but I think Brackley post office didn't have their date stamp set correctly!

Have a great start to the new year, everyone, and for links to more stamps, visit Sunday Stamps.

Under the sea

I was about to send out some envelopes using the coral reef postcard stamps when Fafa sent me a closely matching postcard.

In a senior moment, I scanned it upside down, so here is the postcard the right way up.

Thanks for this great postal coincidence, Fafa.