A rather unique style, Frida Kahlo was often seen with flowers in her hair as a symbol of fertility and her Mexican heritage.
Here she is Princess Aspicia in the Pharaoh's Daughter for the Moscow Ballet, 1908
A rather unique style, Frida Kahlo was often seen with flowers in her hair as a symbol of fertility and her Mexican heritage.
Here she is Princess Aspicia in the Pharaoh's Daughter for the Moscow Ballet, 1908
some uniforms for Sunday Stamps
this blue racer can only be found on Pelee Island (Lake Erie), which is the most southern point in Canada, but it can also be seen in the US in parts of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa.
It is described as a the most graceful and swiftest of Ontario's snakesI am not a collector of snake stamps, but I am a collector of Lunar New Year Stamps, so...
this is one from 2013
and 2001click on the bird name to hear a sample of their song.
from Japan
and from Kenyafor Thursday Postcard Hunt, some fashionably dressed women ahead of International Women's Day
from Poland we have a convolvulus arvensis, aka field bindweed, or morning glory,
and a clianthus dampieri aka Sturt's desert pea, found in Australia
from Slovakia, St Elizabeth Cathedral, the largest church in Slovakia. Originally built in the 11th C, it was consecrated to St Elizabeth of Hungary around 1240. As might be expected for a building so old, and so important, it has undergone numerous reconstruction phases which wikipedia outlines here
from Norway, an old wooden church known as a stave church. Fewer than 30 of these medieval churches survive, and all are in Norway.
the shadows accentuate the sense of movement in these youth athletes
some illustrations for Sunday Stamps
An Edward Hopper house, alone in a bleak landscape
followed by the world's most bizarre animal, the duck billed platypus
A Tudor Revival style Carnegie library built in 1904
Vancouver had a Carnegie library but after a couple of moves for newer and bigger locations, in 1995, a Roman Revival* library was built to resemble the current day Colosseum.
*not a real term, I made it up
some free public buildings for Thursday Postcard Hunt
the comic font of NIPPON suits the comic design of this stamp
I'm not sure about this attempt to join the letters of GRENADA
and my favourite country for calligraphy on stamps CZECHOSLOVAKIA
some fancy writing for Sunday Stamps
below, somewhere in Netherlands
Zaanse Schans holds a special place for me as I lived near there and used to ride my bike through the area.
some windmills from Kent and North Holland for Thursday Postcard Hunt
a lighthouse for Sunday Stamps