Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Stamps

I’ve been away from my post here nearly two weeks, during which I barely had any time to get out and about. But I did find this handsome stamp. The tits of GB and Ireland are, ahem, equivalent to our chickadees.

Birds do lend themselves to stamp designs. Here are some of the first class stamps for letters to Canada. I got an osprey.

mthew

4 responses to “Stamps”

  1. Elizabeth White

    welcome back – I’ve missed the daily posts.

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  2. mthew

    Thanks! I missed doing them.

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  3. Paul Lamb

    You’re worth waiting for (but that doesn’t make the waiting much easier).

    Reply
    1. mthew

      Aw, shucks.

      Reply

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