20 December 2008

Nature of America : Great Lakes Dunes



Great Lakes Dunes


Hi ! Today's post is related with nature.On October 2, 2008, in Empire, Michigan, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the US Postal Service issued 42–cent Nature of America: Great Lakes Dunes commemorative stamps in 10 designs. The Great Lakes Dunes is the tenth stamp pane in the Nature of America’s educational series that features the beauty and complexity of major plant and animal communities in the United States. Earlier series were on Sonoran Desert (1999), Pacific Coast Rain Forest (2000),Great Plains Prairie (2001), Longleaf Pine Forest (2002), Arctic Tundra (2003),Pacific Coral Reef (2004), Northeast Deciduous Forest (2005) ,Southern Florida Wetlands (2006) Alpine Tundra (2007). This is a beautiful series depicting natural heritage of America. In the second part of this Post some lovely & cute stamps for tiny tots issued by US Postal Sevice on 7 August 2008 depicting Walt Didney's famous charcters. These four stamps feature Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willie; Princess Aurora and her helpers Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty; Pongo and one of his pups from 101 Dalmatians; and Mowgli and Baloo from The Jungle Book.In our regular series some nice FDCs from the collection of our distinguished member Mr. Shrikant Parikh. This is all for Today!.....Till Next Post ...Have a Wonderful Time !....



Disney Time.....

Date of Issue - 7 August 2008


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A Journey to Indian Stamps - FDCs of Se-tenant stamps

From collection of Shrikant Parikh

India China Joint Issue - 11 July 2008

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