Birds is the theme this week for Sunday Stamps!  Two from the Soviet Union (USSR) 1990 Snowy Owl  Long-Eared Owl  Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 1960  Common Eider Duck.  This is one of my favorite stamps.  Ethiopia 1967 Waddled Ibis Romania 1957 Black Winged Stilt  Hong Kong 1969 Chinese New Year, Year of the Rooster  Authors, Poets, Composers are up next week ..read more

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The Weekend in Black and White Baby Cat (foreground) and Benny ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson  ..read more

Skywatch Friday  Some sky photos leftover from December 2024 before I drag them into the "Previous Years" file.  Have a nice weekend.  We'll have sun, but along with winter sun comes the cold nights. Yesterday the weather app showed 45° but "feels like 55°."  No it didn't, it felt like 45°!  ..read more

It's Orange postcards this week for Thursday Postcard Hunt. Oranges of course! Takeo, Tadanori Yokoo (postcard of 1997 silkscreen)   An orange sunset reflects off the waters of Morro Bay, California.  Hawaiian Sunset What color is next?  Pink!  ..read more

 Photos from yesterday, January 14, 2025.  New Dawn Climbing Rose Prickly Lettuce (a weed) Bronze Fennel  Orange Mint  Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower) Virginia Creeper  Wild Basil (not the annual herb basil) Yes, I left a lot unpruned this past fall!  The seed heads are pretty though, especially with frost.  ..read more

 I'm glad I stopped in the Goodwill by the grocery store one day in early December.   I found two antique photos in gorgeous frames!  The photos were taken to avoid glass glare, so are a bit skewed.  I believe they are both out of copyright due to information on the back of the second photo.  "Eugene Norton & Jim McKinty at the age of 3 years -"is written on the back.  A bit of online research lead me to a man named Eugene Norton, born in 1920, which would make this photo from 1923. That seems about right.  This one is on strange paper, almo ..read more

 Sunday Stamps this week is Lighthouses.  Estonia 2022 USA 1990 series Next week is Birds ..read more

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