A postcard from the USA! The postcard shows an old painting called “Cranes on a Pine Tree” by Katsushika Hokusai. The painting was created at 1832-3. The stamp was released in 2012, due to the 100th anniversary of the Cherry Blossom Festival in the Washington D.C. The festival was founded as to commemorate the 1912 gift of 3000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to Washington D.C. Originally, a first batch of 2000 cherry trees arrived in US in 1910 but they all died. With the coordinations of many, like chemist, professors from agriculture, finally the trees arrived in the US successfully in 1912.

A postcard from the United States of America! It features the most famous landmark in San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is about 2.7 km long. The bridge started construction in 1933. And the bridge was opened since 1937.

Here is a postcard from the USA. This card shows the Anna Ruby Falls, which is located in Georgia. There is a National Recreation Trail (a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States) near the waterfall area. The waterfall is actually a combination of 2 waterfalls from two separate streams.

Here are the stamps from the postcard. The first stamp was released in 1950, in order to honor the railroad engineers of the country. The man on the stamp is called Casey Jones. His dramatic death, trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a hero.

The second stamp was released in 1980. At that year, the Winter Olympic Games was held in Lake Placid in the USA. The last two stamps were all released in 2013, and they were from the series New England Coastal Lighthouses.

This is a postcard from New York. It was sent by a group of people as they were having a meet-up in New York on the last day of August! Really a great card! The card shows the Times Square, a famous landmark in New York.

Here comes three stamps from the postcard. The first one, with the glag of USA appearing on the stamp, is from the series “A Flag for All Seasons”. Each of the stamp from the series has the American flag viewed from below, flying from a pole at full staff against a background of trees that evoke one of the four seasons of the year. And the one received shows the Autumn Version. The stamp is released in 2013.

The second stamp is about Chinese New Year, with a bundle of firecrackers colored red for luck, and a Chinese Calligraphy and a logo of Snake at the left of the stamp.

The Third stamp is from 2011, showing George Washington. George Washington was the first President of the United States. He played an important role in the independent of the US.

This postcard is from the State of Oregon (俄勒岡州) from USA. Since it is facing the Pacific Ocean, it is not that difficult to find beaches along the coastal line of the state.

Great that there are five stamps on the postcard! The first one, the green one, features Joe DiMaggio, who is a famous baseball player at US. He even holds some records that nobody breaks until now. The stamp was released in 2012, from a series called “Major League Baseball All-Stars”.

The next stamp is also from 2012, a stamp released to show some distinguished americans. This time they pick José Ferrer, who is a famous actor.

The other three stamps are having similar design. I guess they are all definitive stamps. The first one, the green one, was released in 2003. And it features an american clock.

This definitive stamp—a reissue of the 2003 stamp—features an artistic rendering of the dial, or face, of a banjo clock. Constructed of brass and steel, the banjo clock depicted on the stamp has a painted iron dial and a mahogany case crowned by a brass eagle. This elegant timepiece was made circa 1805 by Simon Willard (1753-1848) of Roxbury, Massachusetts. American Clock is the second stamp in the new American Design series.

The second one shows an American Toleware. And the stamp was released in 2002.

The 5–cent definitive American Toleware stamp features artist Lou Nolan’s painted detail of a black toleware coffeepot decorated with red flowers; purple forget–me–nots; and yellow, green and orange leaves, from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Curators at Winterthur believe that it was manufactured in Philadelphia between 1850 and 1875. Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, was the designer and art director for this stamp.

The last one was released in 2007. It shows a Silver Coffeepot.

The sixth stamp in the American Design series—the 3-cent Silver Coffeepot definitive—features an artist’s simplified rendering of a silver coffeepot, circa 1786, belonging to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The coffeepot was made by prominent Philadelphia silversmiths Joseph Richardson, Jr. (1752-1831) and Nathaniel Richardson (1754-1827).

A postcard from Hamilton, a small town, but an hour time to reach the Washington DC, in Virginia in the United States of America. The postcard features a beautiful and famous painting – Cliff Walk at Pourville, from French Claude Monet. This painting now resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece is one of the rare paintings in which Monet includes human beings. The stamps are so lovely! They are three lighthouses in USA, from left to right : New London Harbour, Connecticut; Fortland Head, Maine; Portsmouth Harbour, New Hampshire. And they are all from the series – New England coastal lighthouses. Take a look at the official website to learn more those lighthouse. Thanks Angi from the United States of America!