Last of the February Updates

Today is the last day of February and this will be the last update for February. My cards today are a varied lot, chocolates, penguins, ladies, a mailbox, planes and a Sri Lanka Spurfowl. They come from Croatia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, B.A.T., Ireland and Sri Lanka. That's a lot of cards, seven, I don't usually do that many in a single update, mostly because I'm a little afraid that readers like yourself may lose interest after 4 or 5 cards. I'll try 7 and see how it goes, maybe I'll be the one to lose interest. Then, on top of those cards , I'm starting a new feature that I'll put at the end of this update. More about that later.

Card # 1-- Something to make your mouths water , a nice display of delicious Belgian chocolates.   Lara, a young Postcrosser from Belgium sent this fine selection along. 










Lara used a 2011 stamp from a foil booklet of 5 called Highlights of Belgium.








Card #2-- A nose view of a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 is next. What to say about a 747- big, impressive , great to fly in, and safe . When I'm at an airport, and a B747 drives by, I always stop and take a look.

Vladimir, who hails from Croatia sent this card. This is Vladimir's 2nd entry to this blog. He used 2 recent 2012 stamps. The left stamp celebrates 400 years of the Greek Catholic Church. The right stamp is the most recent Christmas/New Year stamp from Croatia. Just noticed , there's a third stamp on this one. Lower left, is a 1991 airmail or airpost stamp, issued for the Zagreb-Spilt air route.

 

 Card # 3 -- This card of a young lady and her dog comes from Germany.

Jessica used a 2012 Welfare semi-postal stamp on this one. It is 1 of 3 in a set of Gemstones.

















Card # 4 -- This next lady is from Japan. Mari from Tokyo wrote that it was quite cold the day she prepared this card. I guess it would be if one is sitting around like the lady on the card. Now, I have no idea what is written on the left side of the card, all I hope is that it isn't offensive to anyone. 









Mari used 2 flower stamp on her card.





Card # 5 -- Another postbox for my collection. This one is from Ireland, courtesy  of David. The card describes it as an Irish lamp letter box, still found on country roads- a silent servant and symbol of the state. 















David used a new 2013 stamp celebrating The Gathering Ireland 2013. The Gathering is a series of events and festivals to celebrate Irish culture, history, and genealogy.











Card # 6--The card says Falkland Islands but it not actually from The Falklands, though it passed through The Falklands twice. It is postmarked Signy, British Antarctic Territory. Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. Signy Research Base is run by the British Antarctic Survey. This is another of the cards that I handed in at the Stanley , Falkland Islands post office way back on March 15th, 2012.  I found it is my mailbox on Feb 25th , 2013 , that's 347 days after posting it. It was postmarked in Signy on Jan 20th, 2013. When I handed in this card in Stanley, it was 1 of 4 that I prepared for 4 research bases in Antarctica, the other 3 were Rothera, Halley and Port Lockroy.  3 of the 4 have now returned to me, the only outstanding one is Halley, but I still have hope.  

The stamp on this one is from a 2011 set of 6 Research Ships. On this one we can see the RSS Shackleton.

Last card ( in a way ) -- A card showing one of A. Felix J. Perera's photographs. This one shows a Sri Lanka Spurfowl, although I compared it to other spurfowl online and it just didn't look quite like a Sri Lanka Spurfowl. But I guess Perera and the card producers know more that I do.    So here it is .

Dr. Mikram used 3 great stamps on this card. They are 3 of 10 in a 2011 World Tourism Day set.








Now as I mentioned at the beginning, I am starting a new feature today. From today, at the end of every update I am going to show an aviation related postcard ( airline or aircraft ) and a single or set of aviation stamps. There won't be a lot of comment about them, I just want to show them and have you comment about them. I know there are others out there that collect this theme, so I hope to hear from you. I won't soon run out of this material, as I have been collecting both the stamps and cards for years.

So here's the first entry on this theme : A Pacific Western Boeing 737 and a 1999 set of 4 stamps from Cuba celebrating Cubana's 70th anniversary. The aircraft on the stamps include a Fokker, a DC-10, a A-320 and a DC-3.Enjoy.   

Thanks for reading, hope it wasn't too long . Thanks for cards to Lara, Vladimir, Jessica, Mari, David, and Dr. Mikram.
See you all again in March.