I saw a
photo of a summer solstice rainbow over the ancient stones of Stonehenge and wondered if I had any rainbows
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| 1980: Nursery Tales - "above them the sky is always clear" |
and found a cute duo out in the Mongolian countryside for a picnic.
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| 2010: Greetings Stamps (Designer - Johannes Graf) |
Best wishes are sent with this rainbow. I enjoyed this set so as I am now out of rainbows lets see the rest
Designed by Johannes Graf who also does the intermittent series of l
ighthouse stamps, like these, a popular stamp to send on post.
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| 2012: 225th Birth Anniversary Joseph Von Fraunhofer (Design - Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler; Engravers - Giesecke and Devrient) |
A rainbow of colours celebrating the birth of Joseph Von Frauhofer, physicist, instrument maker and inventor of the spectroscope. The stamp shows the spectrum from red to violet broken by the dark lines now known as Fraunhofer lines or absorption lines.
Sunday Stamps II prompt this week is the letter R - here for Rainbow and red -
See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
These are perfect stamps for the beginning of the summer. I had received one of them (the one with the boat), but the rest are new to me. How cheerful they are!
A rainbow of colours - also perfect for Pride Month.
I would gladly forgo seeing a rainbow this summer but must admire these stamps.
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