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| 1998: Definitives - Paintings by Jean-Frederic Schnyder |
Trees for all seasons and it looks like summer in Franches-Monagnes but elsewhere we are in winter with a painting of a 'Snowdrift near Neuthal'
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| 1988: Swiss-Chinese Friendship (Design - Xu Yan Bo) |
The reflection of trees in Slender West Lake, Yangzhou, China
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| 1976: Bailiwick Views |
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| 1988: 200th Anniversary of the birth of Joseph von Eichendorff |
A sturdy oak. A woodcut by Ludwig Richter of the poem 'Solitude of the Green Woods' by the romantic poet Joseph von Eichendorff and whose family name means 'oak village'. I couldn't find the poem but here is an extract from his novella 'Life of a Good-for-Nothing' (Aus dem Leben eines Taugenchts) which contains dozens of poems and where he spends a lot of time wandering around hills and forests and then falling asleep in trees. Someone once called this novella "far too happy". Trees can have that effect.
"He to whom God Wants to show his favour
God sends him out into the wide world
To him He will reveal his miracles
In hill and woods, stream and field"
Sunday Stamps theme this week - Trees - in bloom at See It On A Postcard
5 comments:
I like the variety of trees and seasons on your posts. And I agree: trees make us happy!
The German stamp with the oak tree is fantastic, and the story too. I love tree: I take lots of pictures of tree I see around
Those Swiss stamps are wonderful, and thanks for sharing the story on the German one
I like the German gnarly tree.
Ooh, another great gnarly tee! It's a shame we don't see more winter/snowy scenes on stamps outside of Christmas.
The China and Guernsey views are so calming (on this windy, wet, dreary day)
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