Leaves

 Today's Sunday Stamps prompt is Trees and Leaves.

I chose this 5c stamp from Germany, which arrived by way of postcrossing.

The water lily stamp has leaves (lily pads), and then there's the petals on the flower. Petals are modified leaves, and the petals on the stamp are made of paper, which is (mostly) made from trees. A complicated route to today's theme! I love this new (since 2022) definitive set from Germany featuring all things related to letter writing turned into all sorts of landscape features.

To see more stamps with leaves and trees as themes, head over to See it on a Postcard.

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I have a bonus eclipse stamp to add to last week's post!

Violet S very kindly sent me the amazing Canadian eclipse stamp which arrived yesterday - I love it, thank you so much!

You can see here that there are is also a hidden effect on the stamp.

Sent on the back of sun over Niagara Falls - this matches our weekend which is very sunny.

And if you'd like to see my bonus eclipse post where I held the 2017 stamps over a hot stove to get them to change color, it's here.

Total eclipse

 Yesterday's post was eclipse and sun related. I didn't have a picture of the 2017 eclipse stamps when heated, so here is one I took last night. 

And here is an eclipse stamp I forgot I had received from Taiwan.

If you're going to experience the totality, I hope you have clear skies! 

The sun

 Or at least part of it on the eclipse stamp issued in 2017. If you heat the stamp it will reveal the moon blocking out most of the sun. I received and sent this stamp a few times. 

There's also a sun on one of the woodland animal stamps, as well as on the pictorial postmark (credit to CJ for the photo). 

And finally, some suns sent to Eva a while ago. 

For more sun and eclipse related stamps, check out the links at See it on a Postcard.

Flowers

 Today's Sunday Stamps theme is related to Easter - chocolate, bunnies, flowers and churches.

Here's a stamp from Japan featuring the Japanese primrose

And a winterling (winter aconite, a member of the buttercup family) from Germany

The latter was accompanied by a happy snail

And arrived on this nice postcard

For more stamps with these themes, head over to See it on a Postcard, and if you celebrate, have a happy Easter.

Uniform

 Today's Sunday Stamps theme is uniform, and recently I received the stamp commemorating 100 the centenary. of the end of World War I that was issued in 2018.

It arrived on this lovely exchange envelope.

For links to more uniforms on stamps, visit See it on a Postcard

A green leap

 An excellent frog stamp from the Netherlands, part of the beautiful 'Experience Nature' series

Sent on this leap year postcard

With a 29 Feb postmark!

Thanks to Heleen!

Explore the links for today's Sunday Stamps theme of green, snakes, or Irish stamps at See it on a Postcard

Elvis

 The first Elvis stamp and the second Elvis stamp. I think I read that the 29c issue is one of the all time best selling USPS stamps.