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| Oct 2000: Stamp Collecting Month - Exploration of Mars (Design - Otto Schmidinger) |
As it has been World Space Week for today's theme of 'My Choice' I'm heading to the future and Mars.
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| 2016: Planetary Correspondences (Design - Guy Coda) |
Take a tour of the Solar System - passing Mars and Jupiter
while the Moon sleeps in the clouds and Venus looks on
but perhaps I will keep my feet firmly on the ground and just enjoy the view.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - 'My Choice' - See It On A Postcard
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| 1932:Airmail |
The Great Wall of China built to defend the countries historic northern borders
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| 2020: Roman Britain |
and its tiny cousin Hadrian's Wall, the northernmost part of the Roman Empire.
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| 1961: Tourism - Landscapes and Monuments |
The monasteries of Meteora took a different approach and built on top of immense natural rock pillars
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| 2004: Bauhaus |
But for more relaxed living the model homes for the Masters at the Bauhaus School in Dessau were a vision for modern living, the large windows creating a link between exterior and interior.
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| 2004: Wattenmeer National Park |
Head for the Wadden Sea National Park and breath the fresh sea air. The largest national park in Germany, 68% of it is underwater the rest is mainly salt marshes Its UNESCO designation is for its undisturbed inter-tidal ecosystem and unique biodiversity.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is -UNESCO World Heritage Sites -visit See It On A Postcard
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| 1955-7: Sport (Design - S Jonsson) |
Diving into a geothermal pool, how pleasant.
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| 2014: Sport - Swedish Classic (Design - Henrik Karlson) |
This may be a little more bracing. The Swedish Classics are 4 races consisting of Cross Country Skiing, running, open water swimming and cycling. They have to be completed within a year of registering and on completion a certificate and medal are awarded.
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| 1953: Sports (Design - Andre Jacquemin\) |
The ambient temperature of a pool
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| 1992: Olympic Games (Design - T Ekstrom) |
the spectacular but exhausting butterfly stroke.
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| 1966: Prehistoric Fauna (Design - A Heidrich) |
One might choose a different stroke if this was swimming towards you. I would call that the panic stroke. The Terror Fish (Dinichthys), apex predator. Swam the seas when sharks were small in comparison. Its fossil remains have been found in the USA and Canada.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Swimmers - See It On A Postcard
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| 1994: Cathedrals (Design - Yu Artsimenev) |
The glory of St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow
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| 1990: Village Churches from Jutland |
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| 2003: The Church of Kumlinge (Design - Pirkko Nahtero) |
Travel to Aland and the isolated St Anne's church located in the middle of the island of Kumlinge. One of the big draws for visitors are the 15th Century wall and ceiling paintings and the oldest alter piece in Finland (1250).
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| 1991 Discount Stamps: Skansen 100 Years (Design - A Oldenburg) |
The old wooden church in the village of Seglora was due for demolition when a stone church was built to replace it however it was saved and moved to Skansen in 1916. Today it is a popular place for weddings.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Places of Worship - pray visit See It On A Postcard
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| 1985: Native Birds |
A conservation success, in 1980 the Black Robin had the smallest population of any bird species due to non-native predators. Today there is a stable population of about 300 on two New Zealand islands.
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| 1998|: |Pro Juventute |
No such problems with the Great Crested Grebe, estimated to have a global population of over a million.
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| 1970: Birds |
Common Black Hawk, also known as the Crab Hawk for its food choices are - crabs, crayfish and amphibians. It hunts low along streams and sometimes wading in the water.
St Vincent have Queen Elizabeth on their bank notes and stamps so like us will be seeing many changes.
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| 1987: 40th Anniv of Wedding of Queen Elizabeth and 150th Anniv of Queen Victoria's Accession |
The Queen and the christening of Prince Charles, we will have to get used to calling him King Charles. Weird to hear the national anthem as God Save the King at her Remembrance service in St Paul's Cathedral this week She had a unique relationship to St Vincent as in all her duties relating to the islands she spoke an acted as their constitutional monarch - Queen of St Vincent and the Grenadines and not as Queen of the UK.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Black - See It On A Postcard
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| 2013: Town Festivals (Design - Linda Olafsdottir) |
Having fun at the festivals across Iceland. There must be lots to enjoy for they issued another set the following year.
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| 1972: 150th Anniversary of the Carnival in Cologne (Design - Erna de Vries) |
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| 1979: Quebec Carnival (Design - Antoine Dumas) |
Wrap up warm it is the largest winter festival in the world in Quebec. Seen waving at the back is the carnivals mascot - Bonhomme Carnaval, who also gets his own ice palace!
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| 1978: Christmas (Design - Faith Jaques) |
Time to go indoors and dance around a tree singing carols
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Festivals, People having a good time - See It On A Postcard
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| 1999: Coastal Flowers (Design - Wayne Rankin; Cover Design - Melinda Coombs) |
A day for the seaside here, warm with blue skies but I travel by stamps to the sandy coasts of Australia where flowers play a role in the forming and stabilising the dunes while looking beautiful.
The flowers are clockwise - Fuchsia; the yellow trailing Guinea flower; Australian Bluebells which occur throughout southeastern Australia and Beach Morning Glory.
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| 2021: The Calf of Man - 70th Anniversary of the Manx National Trust |
One of a set of stamps celebrating the Calf of Man, a small island just off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man, a nature reserve and bird observatory, the flower they chose for the stamp set was Thrift or Sea Pink, a familiar plant of wild coasts, although people grow it in their gardens too, a very accommodating plant.
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| 1997: 19th Century Flower Paintings |
Some more garden flowers captured in art - Blue Gentian
Fuchsia and a tulip
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Flowers - in boom at See It On A Postcard
