Sunday Stamps: Autumn Colours - Norway, USA

 As I don't really have any autumn colours to show on stamps I thought I would just share some from our garden.

Redwood shrub

The nearest stamp that I could show instead is a painting of a hanging birch by T H Fearnley.

Norway - 18 October 1976

The date it was issued is at least appropriate.

We see fir cones in autumn and so I thought that I could show some Christmas stamps - Holiday Evergreens - from the USA.

USA - 24 October 2010

These are from a double sheet, each containing nine. The recurring four stamps are (from the bottom left corner)

- Ponderosa Pine

- Eastern Red Cedar

- Balsam Fir

- Blue Spruce

For other colourful stamps visit the links at Sunday Stamps

Bare - Thematic Photography

The rain has stopped at last and cold weather has arrived, it's not the climate for stripping off.

However some shrubs even look good when denuded.

Redwood

At this time of year before next year's crop gets established a field may be bare but it's far from barren.

Bare barbed wire protects the 'mud'

However appearances may be deceptive like this footpath in the winter sun.

It's black ice that shines and catches you unawares

Even bare boards boast a little decoration in a garden fence.

Perhaps this sunbather should have invested in a fig leaf rather larger than the ivy intruding through the boards.

That brings me to the bare end. 

For other interpretations of Carmi's bare theme please check the links at Thematic-photographic-363.