Sunday Stamps # 144

Hello again after a week away. My conference was very busy, as I had anticipated.  This morning I raked lots of leaves, and this early evening rain came down and knocked down so many leaves, it looked as if I hadn't done anything.  Ah well, that is Fall!

Time for Sunday Stamps!  I hope I have not lost you, with a week off!

Our theme this week is the Arctic or Antarctic.  I am sharing a stamp from Latvia today.

This stamps shows an Emperor Penguin and a small chick.  More information on this species can be found at the Wikipedia entry.  Why they are on a Latvian stamp, I haven't a clue.

Please join me this week with a polar stamp - I do hope you have one.

Theme next week:  Ships and boats of all sorts.

Theme two weeks from now: ???? Help me Sunday Stampers, I need some suggestions!

Viridian

Sunday Stamps #10

Wow, we are up to week #10!!!!

Theme this week:  Anything you wish.  The stamp above just arrived to my house on a postcard from Latvia Lithuania. I think this is a Christmas stamp, but no matter.  I'd like to share it with you today.

I keep thinking about the earthquake in Japan, and obsessively check the US Geological Survey EQ web page for aftershocks (some have been considerable in size) and the news for more information.  It is shocking and sad, and my thoughts are with them.  As bad as it is, the damage isn't worse because they have good building codes in Japan.  remember the initial 8.9 earthquake was one of the top 10 earthquakes ever measured, in magnitude.  the magnitude scale is logarithmic, so that a mag 8 earthquake is 10 times more shaking and 30 times more energy released than a mag 7 earthquake.

I think this stamp reminds us we all share one world.

Please join in, sharing any stamp you wish.

Viridian

Theme next week: stamps from Ireland, green stamps, shamrock stamps, stamps with Irish people on them. . .

Postcrossing: PFF

Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!

This is a Postcrossing postcard from Riga, Latvia, that came with some beautiful stamps. This photograph is called "Painters" by Gvido Kajons.

viridian