Baffling image for me.

 Slovenia-Europe in Miniature, well that's what the heading for this stamp released in 97 has for it in the catalogue. I just can't wrap my head around the image however. What in the hell is it exactly? A cross between a double helix and a colorful candy stick? Are those trees at the top of whatever this is? Does anyone have an idea? Maybe if I was told what it is my brain would accept it and recognize.

Update.....Alojose Sore from the group Stamp Collecting on Facebook left this comment which is much appreciated......

I used google translation, so I appologaise if the translation is not correct, but I think you wiil understand it.

"On Palm Sunday in Slovenia is a habit that people wear to church to be blessed tied bunches of young green, evergreen foliage, branches of local orchards and olive branch. Habit has its ancient, even pre-Christian roots, when people are at Spring Awakening believe in re-birth of nature, the awakening of the mysterious forces of winter and the winter sun plants died. In Christianity it wont get your new content and is also a solemn remembrance of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem, when he greeted people on the streets with olive branches. Among the various types of fagots are some specific rules of Ljubljana. Made of young greens and colored shavings and development youngest. This form of domestic crafts began to develop strongly in the thirties of the last century, when the inhabitants DOBRUNJE, Sv. Ulrich, Sostro and Janč, a village on the outskirts of Ljubljana, begin drawing Bundle of fresh greens and planed. Planing already then often painted in the colors of the Slovenian tribarvnice, so fagots also receive new content, semantic dimension. Developed primarily two ways of producing and integration planed in butaro: oblanec any pointed or semi-circular curve. Ljubljana fagots are differences in the relationship between planing and decorative greenery"

http://www.posta.si/postna-celina/494/Ljubljanska-butarica?nodeid=534

Best regards from Slovenia

   "I see" said the blind man to his deaf daughter on a dark night.


JimmyB

WW2 hobbying

 With the war effort going full strength and the allied forces pushing forward, it had to be with a little pride the U.S. postal service showed a little bit of spirit in this release. The 75th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
 This was the era when stamp collecting was at it's highest. Philatelists are waning today and I can understand why, what with the advent of UPC codes on letter labels printed upon purchase.

JimmyB

Blowin in the Wind

 I think this is a drinking horn circa 1600 depicted on this Iceland stamp released in 2010. Let me know if I'm wrong as my understanding of the Icelandic language is nonexistent and attempts to Google search anything Icelandic simply brings up websites written in the Icelandic language .

Now this 2007 release commemorates the 100th anniversary of The Soil Conservation Service. I guess that Iceland being as small as it is has had good reason to conserve it's soil for quite some time. Sorta looks like a grassy dune here. It reminds me of the beaches in Rhode Island.

JimmyB

More Smiles

 As I continue to sift thru the mixture I received for my first(and only to date) review purchase on my blog from Yersel which I posted last week, I continue to be happier and happier with the contents.
 Having being accustomed to receiving mixtures and looking them up only to find the stamp was of the lowest denominator in the set, It's so nice to find I have the two HIGHEST stamps in the series.
 Here I found the two highest in this 2009 Cultural Heritage of Slovakia release. This 2 Euro being unfathomably possible to receive in an ordinary mix I would typically have bought in the past.
 I fear I may want to make my next purchase from him again which would be much to the disadvantage in my plans of making regular purchases from differing dealers in order to give my readers an idea of who are good merchants to buy mixtures from.

JimmyB

A Fish and Story Teller

 Mauritius released in Oct 2000 a set of 12 fish stamps. The 5 Rupee being a Clown Fish and the 7 Rupee being a fish in the Surgeon Fish family called the Powder Blue Tang.

 Hans Christian Anderson is depicted on this 2005 issue from Malta commemorating the 200th anniversary of his birth. As most people know he wrote stories and is most widely known for his fairy tales. He fell out of bed in the spring of 1872 and was severely hurt and never fully recovered. He died in August of the same year near Copenhagen in his native country of Denmark.

 I've still received no entries for my Monk's Mound raffle giveaway which the deadline for is at the end of August. Rules posted here....http://stampsandcovers.blogspot.com/2013/07/unesco-world-heritage.html.

To anyone who thinks they don't want to collect postcards, all I can tell you is that I will be placing some very nice U.S. commemorative and or topical stamps on the post card when I mail it.



JimmyB

Stretching on Birds

 This is a stretch for placing this Swedish stamp categorized as West Coast in a bird post, but hey, I see gulls trailing this fishing boat, don't you? Released in June of 1974 this is one in a set of 5 depictions of coatal scenes(ok, this one is actually OFF the coast).

 South Africa never seems to stop releasing animal and flora stamps. How many times can you put an elephant or a zebra on a stamp? Released in November of 2000 as a set of 5, here is the Lilac-Breasted Roller and the White-fronted Bee-eater. Really strikingly beautiful birds.

I promised a friend I met on the FB group stamp collecting that I would mention he has a Kilo of stamps off paper worldwide mixture for sale. Says it's roughly 4,500 stamps. He from the Arab Emirates and if your interested in contacting him he has a blog and it has contact information. I believe he wants $135 +shipping. Sounds like a good deal actually, but I'm sure he would accept offers also. This is a link to his blog  http://numisthing.blogspot.ae/


JimmyB

Sea of Stamps

 There's something almost comical about this 2011 German issue of a guy peering over at Greta Garbo(1905-1990) from 2001, isn't there?
 I'm trying to think of some way to say thank you to the folks who designed mystampworld.com. It's a godsend to anyone who doesn't feel like shilling out half a grand or so every year in order to keep an up to date stamp catalogue.

 Similar to this 2004 Lighthouse, mystampworld.com will never let you get lost in the great ocean of stamps that are out there.

JimmyB