Dorincard

https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximaphily/

2025-06-23T11:13:00.005-04:00

https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximaphily/

Please explore.

Please explore philatelic exhibits!

2024-04-21T23:17:00.007-04:00

https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximaphily/permalink/8424457930902954/

Burundi wildlife stamp series

2024-04-16T18:11:00.001-04:00

Coffee tree maxicard

2024-03-14T15:04:00.003-04:00

Coffee tree maxicard, that I created with a friend from Colombia.

Some of the over 160 personalized postage stamps that I designed at Zazzle

2024-02-26T16:32:00.001-05:00

Please explore The Stamp Forum

2024-02-23T08:09:00.001-05:00

My #maximaphily thread that I started.

Enjoy!

https://thestampforum.boards.net/thread/3235/maximaphily-traditional-non

Please explore my maximaphily group "Maximaphily, traditional and non-traditional" that I founded and I administer on Facebook

2024-02-19T12:04:00.005-05:00

Please explore my maximaphily group "Maximaphily, traditional and non-traditional" that I founded and I administer on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximaphily/

Mihai Eminescu maxicard

2024-02-15T14:58:00.003-05:00

Refugees maxicard

2024-02-15T14:56:00.002-05:00

Eurasian lynx maxicard

2024-02-12T15:26:00.000-05:00

22 Nov 2012 - clouded leopard

2012-11-21T12:59:00.001-05:00

2006 Dracula philatelic exhibit

2012-10-26T10:14:00.000-04:00

What do YOU think this is: The LONG-BEAKED ECHIDNA, The SHORT-BEAKED ECHIDNA, or The Greek mythological ECHIDNA? The first two types contain MONOTREME mothers, and the third one is an EXTREME mother ("The Mother of All Monsters")?

2012-01-28T17:20:00.001-05:00

What do YOU think this is: The LONG-BEAKED ECHIDNA, The SHORT-BEAKED ECHIDNA, or The Greek mythological ECHIDNA? The first two types contain MONOTREME mothers, and the third one is an EXTREME mother ("The Mother of All Monsters")?

MAXICARDS / DORINCARDS from AUSTRALIA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaglossus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-beaked_Echidna

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http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/dragons.html

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mythological+echidna&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3906l10936l0l11315l20l10l0l3l3l0l1837l7001l3.1.5-1.2.2.1l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=677&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=7XMkT4iwPLO70QGmkrD2CA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)
"In Greek mythology, Echidna (Greek: Ἔχιδνα, ekhis, ἔχις, meaning "she viper") was half woman half snake, known as the "Mother of All Monsters" because most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her."

"Offspring

Echidna was the mother by Typhon of many monstrous offspring, including:

Orthrus - The two-headed dog which guarded the Cattle of Geryon.^[9]^[10]
Cerberus - The many-headed dog which guarded the gates of Hades.^[9]^[11]
The Lernaean Hydra - The many-headed sea monster which when one of its heads was cut off grew two more.^[9]^[11]
The Chimera - A fire breathing beast that was part lion, part goat, and had a snake-headed tail.^[9]^[12]^[11]
The Caucasian Eagle — An eagle that every day ate the liver of Prometheus.^[13]
The Crommyonian Sow - Killed by Theseus.^[14]
The Gorgon - According to Hyginus.^[11]
The Colchian Dragon - A dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece.^[11]
Scylla - According to Hyginus.^[11]
The Teumessian fox - A fox that was destined never to be caught. It was sometimes called the Cadmean vixen.

Also included as the offspring of Echidna by Typhon, by some, are the Sphinx^[15]^[11] and the Nemean lion.^[16] However Hesiod's genealogy here is unclear, he says these two were fathered by Orthrus,^[9] but he has been read variously as saying that Echidna, the Chimaera, or even Ceto, was their mother.^[17]

Ladon, the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, was also born of Echidna by Typhon, according to Apollodorus,^[13] and Hyginus,^[11] but according to Hesiod, Ladon was the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.^[18]

Echidna is also sometimes identified as the mother by Heracles, of Scythes, an eponymous king of the Scythians, along with his brothers Agathyrsus and Gelonus.^[19]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)}

BBC News - Romania sells Ceausescu luxuries from communist era

2012-01-28T16:11:00.001-05:00

BBC News - Romania sells Ceausescu luxuries from communist era
"Ceausescu held Romania in an iron grip as communist leader from 1965 to 1989.

Diana Dochia, a Romanian art gallery curator quoted by Reuters news agency, said few young Romanians "really know what happened then".

"Furthermore, the momentum grows to think it's 'cool' to discuss communism, but the truth is that it was not 'cool' at all," she said.

Ceausescu and his wife surrounded themselves with luxuries while most Romanians struggled with poverty, power cuts and constant surveillance by the secret police."

"Romania (ⁱ/roʊˈmeɪniə/ roh-may-nee-ə; dated: Roumania;^[6] or Rumania;^[7]^[8] Romanian:România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central andSoutheastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea.^[9] Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.

At 238,400 square kilometers (92,000 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with 21.9 million people.^[2] Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the sixth largest city in the EU with about two million people."

Romania

România


Flag	Coat of arms

Anthem: Deșteaptă-te, române!
Awaken thee, Romanian!

Location of Romania (dark green):

on the European continent (incl. the EU)

in the European Union

Capital
(and largest city)

Bucharest
44°25′N 26°06′E

Official language(s)

Romanian

Ethnic groups (2002)

89.5% Romanians
6.6% Hungarians
2.5% Roma
2% other minorities^[1]

Demonym

Romanian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

Postcard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-01-27T07:34:00.003-05:00

Postcard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe I should create a personalized stamp for this:

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).

Postal card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012-01-26T21:31:00.002-05:00

Postal card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Semantics matter, when you try to speak about the same thing.
By postal card, I understand a card that doesn't have a picture covering an entire side, as a PPC (picture postcard) does.
A postal card may have a cachet (small picture) on the address side, usually.

Here's a PPC, not a postal card:

Please visit (it's still open):

http://clytie-randomhearts.blogspot.com/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012

Guest Heart Thursday #94

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR heart!

Let's see what Linkwithin widget does:

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012

Guest Heart Thursday #94

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR heart!

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012

Guest Heart Thursday #94

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR heart!

BBC News - Somalia: Western hostages freed in US military raid. Also, I show you a folded MAXICARD / MAXIMUM CARD / DORINCARD with a BISON cow and calf, who sometimes do playful buttheading. But criminals and other evildoers should NOT butthead with the LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES or the MILITARY FORCES. "Black Hawk down" was an exception; in general, criminals should NOT provoke a military power like USA

2012-01-25T09:20:00.001-05:00

BBC News - Somalia: Western hostages freed in US military raid:

'via Blog this'

Against criminals of all sorts, we should do whatever it takes to give them what they deserve, including capital punishment. From case to case, all things considered.

"No IFs, ANDs, or BUTS"..."No IFs, ANDs, or (HEAD) BUTTS".

B, as in Bison, Buttheading...

Please visit the ABC Wednesday meme:

http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/

The "RECYCLE MORE" stamp from the "GO GREEN" series of USPS, on my non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a page ad showing an outdoor table with a...bin Laden with trash (recyclables only). The non-recyclable trash goes to the other black bin, to the right.

2012-01-24T22:34:00.002-05:00

The "RECYCLE MORE" stamp from the "GO GREEN" series of USPS, on my non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a page ad showing an outdoor table with a...bin Laden with trash (recyclables only). The non-recyclable trash goes to the other black bin, to the right.

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"Bin and similar can mean:

A kind of receptacle, especially a wastebin or recycling bin." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin

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"Etymology

See lade.

[edit]Adjective

laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)

Weighed down with a load, burdened. [quotations ▼]
Heavy.

His comments were laden with deeper meaning.

Oppressed.

(chemistry): In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laden

My MAXICARD / DORINCARD from the UNITED KINGDOM, showing a GREATER HORSESHOE BAT (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), the largest BAT species in EUROPE. Postmark from MANCHESTER, where I visited, and attended a computer course eons ago...Thank you, Heather. Wendy and Mogs!

2012-01-23T20:57:00.004-05:00

My MAXICARD / DORINCARD from the UNITED KINGDOM, showing a GREATER HORSESHOE BAT (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), the largest BAT species in EUROPE. Postmark from MANCHESTER, where I visited, and attended a computer course eons ago...Thank you, Heather, Wendy and Mogs!

Dung beetles, Hymenoptera, Cockchafers...they all are a yummy part of the diet of

the GREATER HORSESHOE BAT (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum).

"Diet and hunting

The species feeds preferentially on lepidoptera (moths), making up around 41% of the diet^[13] - in particular the noctuidae species ^[14],Coleoptera (beetles) constitute around 33% of the diet^[13], of which dung beetles are often taken[.] Aphodius rufipes is one such dung beetle forming an especially important part of its diet. Cow pats are part of its life cycle, acting as food source and habitat for the larvae. Up to 100 larvae can be found in a single cow pat. The beetle is most abundant in August when the young bats begin their first feeeding flights).^[15] The remainder of the diet being Hymenoptera and Diptera.^[13] Cockchafers also form an important part of its diet."

"The greater horseshoe bat is the largest bat in Europe.^[5] It has a distinctive noseleaf, which has a pointed upper part and a horseshoe shaped lower part.^[6] Its horseshoe noseleaf helps to focus the ultrasound it uses to 'see'. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinolophus_ferumequinum_ras.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Horseshoe_Bat

Did you notice the pale bluish cave walls in the top image?

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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)

Please visit: http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Example of a "standard" / definitive stamp / ("timbru uzual", in Romanian): a 50 bani stamp with a Romanian folkloric handcrafted PLOSCA (wooden flask, portable container for water, or wine...). Per Postcardy's request, I also show you the entire 16-stamps series, an image from freestampcatalogue.com

2012-01-22T09:22:00.006-05:00

Example of a "standard" / definitive stamp / ("timbru uzual", in Romanian): a 50 bani stamp with a Romanian folkloric handcrafted PLOSCA (wooden flask, portable container for water, or wine...).

An example from a Romanian website:

http://www.romartizana.ro/index.php?pag=detaliu&categ=artizanat_lemn

Another one:
http://www.artalemnului.ro/produse_en.php?lang=romana&ID=34&m_catid=10&userID=

The front side of the above MAXICARD:

"The Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of Eurasia."- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichodroma_muraria
"Dryas octopetala (common names include mountain avens, white dryas, and white dryad) is an arctic-alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies, and is a popular flower in rock gardens. The specific epithet octopetaladerives from the Greek octo (eight) and petalon (petal), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally" .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryas_octopetala

Definitive stamps from Romania, 1982. Re-issued in 1989, with watermark. http://www.postbeeld.com/en/fsc/search&exact-country=ro&exact-publish_year=1982

http://www.postbeeld.com/en/fsc/search&exact-country=ro&exact-publish_year=1982

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Happy Sunday Stamps meme!

Please visit: http://viridianpostcard.blogspot.com/

Beautiful painting: "ROSES". MOUTH-PAINTED (!!!) by JONI EARECKSON TADA, a formidable woman who was left quadruplegic by a diving accident at age 17. Later, she even survived BREAST CANCER! My non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a folded card featuring her and her Roses painting. Learn more about this great person and role model, who overcame ANGER, DEPRESSION and SUICIDAL THOUGHTS!

2012-01-21T13:42:00.001-05:00

Beautiful painting: "ROSES". MOUTH-PAINTED (!!!) by JONI EARECKSON TADA, a formidable woman who was left quadruplegic by a diving accident at age 17. Later, she even survived BREAST CANCER! My non-traditional MAXICARD / DORINCARD with a folded card featuring her and her Roses painting. Learn more about this great person and role model, who overcame ANGER, DEPRESSION and SUICIDAL THOUGHTS!.

I am very impressed by Joni, so allow me to post here her biography from her official website.

Absolutely amazing!

Thank you, Joni, for showing us that life is what you make of it, despite all the problems in your path!

Joni's Bio

JONI EARECKSON TADA

Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends, is an international advocate for people with disabilities.

A diving accident in 1967 left Joni Eareckson, then 17, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, unable to use her hands. After two years of rehabilitation, she emerged with new skills and a fresh determination to help others in similar situations.

During her rehabilitation, Joni spent long months learning how to paint with a brush between her teeth. Her high-detail fine art paintings and prints are sought-after and collected

Her best-selling autobiography “Joni” and the feature film of the same name have been translated into many languages, introducing her to people around the world. She also has visited 46 countries.

She has served on the National Council on Disability under President Reagan and President Bush and the Disability Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

She is Senior Associate for Disability Concerns for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and serves in an advisory capacity to the American Leprosy Mission, the National Institute on Learning Disabilities, Love and Action and Christian Blind Mission International, as well as on the Board of Reference for the Christian Writers Guild and the Christian Medical and Dental Society.

After being the first woman honored by the National Association of Evangelicals as its "Layperson of the Year" in 1986, Joni was named "Churchwoman of the Year" in 1993 by the Religious Heritage Foundation.

She has received numerous other awards and honors, including the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award; The Courage Award from the Courage Rehabilitation Center; The Award of Excellence from the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center; The Victory Award from the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and The Golden Word Award from the International Bible Society.

Joni has been awarded several honorary degrees, including: Bachelor of Letters from Western Maryland College; Doctor of Humanities from Gordon College; Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia International University, the first bestowed in its 75-year history; Doctor of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary; Doctor of Divinity from Lancaster Bible College; Doctor of Humanitarian Services from California Baptist University; and Doctor of Humanities from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Joni has written over 70 books and numerous magazine articles. She was inducted into the Christian Booksellers’ Association’s Hall of Honor in 1995 and received the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Joni’s works cover topics ranging from disability outreach to reaching out to God and include: “A Christmas Longing,” depicting her best-loved Christmas paintings, and “Life and Death Dilemma,” addressing the tough issues of physician-assisted suicide. The mystery of suffering is systematically examined in “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty,” a book written with Steve Estes in 1997 which won the Gold Medallion Award. In 2003, Joni wrote her memoirs, “The God I Love,” chronicling a lifetime walking with Jesus. Her current work, “A Lifetime of Wisdom: Embracing the Way God Heals You” recounts the hard-won gems of wisdom she has garnered during more than four decades of life in a wheelchair. Her newest books “A Place of Healing” (DC Cook) and “Life in the Balance” (Regal Books) will be released in Fall 2010.

In 2004, she received a Gold Medallion for co-authoring “Hymns for a Kid’s Heart, Volume 1.” She has written several children's books, including “Tell Me the Promises,” which received a Gold Medallion and a Silver Medal in the 1997 C.S. Lewis Awards, and “Tell Me the Truth,” which received a Gold Medallion in 1998.

Beginning in 1982, she hosted “Joni and Friends,” a daily five-minute radio program of information and inspiration. Now four minutes in length, the program airs on more than 1,000 outlets and reaches 1 million listeners a week. Her one-minute inspirational program, “Diamonds in the Dust,” also airs daily on more than 800 stations nationwide. In 2002, Joni received the William Ward Ayer Award for excellence from the National Religious Broadcasters’ Association.

The 30-minute television version of “Joni and Friends” looks at people who inspire Joni by enduring the most difficult trials while continuing to trust in God. The television series has won three Telly Awards.

She has been interviewed or featured on TV shows such as “Larry King Live” and “ABC World News Tonight,” in print outlets such as Christianity Today, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and on radio shows such as “Focus on the Family.”

Joni and her husband, Ken Tada, have been married since 1982."

http://www.joniandfriends.org/jonis-corner/jonis-bio/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Eareckson_Tada

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Happy Pink Saturday! (still open on Sunday!)

^{Please visit "Pretty in pink"/ "Show us your pink" [objects, that is :)] meme here:}

^{http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/}

My non-traditional MAXICARD (because it's made with a FAUCET decoupage from a "junk mail" ad for LOWE'S, a great Home Improvement store), with the FIX A LEAK stamp from the GO GREEN series of USA

2012-01-20T20:47:00.002-05:00

My non-traditional MAXICARD (because it's made with a FAUCET decoupage from a "junk mail" ad for LOWE'S, a great Home Improvement store), with the FIX A LEAK stamp from the GO GREEN series of USA.

No, I am not affiliated with Lowe's Company, but I like their stores.

I also like Home Depot stores, just to be clear. :)

"Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a U.S.-based chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores. Founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the chain now serves more than 14 million customers a week in its 1,710 stores in the United States and 20 in Canada. Expansion into Canada began in 2007, with the opening of a store in Hamilton, Ontario, in early 2008. Lowe's started the construction of two stores in the Mexican city of Monterrey officially entering the Mexican market.^[3] In 2011, Lowe's released plans to build over 150 stores in Australia over the coming 5 years, hoping to compete with the AUD$46 billion industry. Lowe's Companies, Inc. is 43 on the Fortune 500^[4] list. As of 2010, the chain is based in Mooresville, North Carolina, near Charlotte, North Carolina. Lowe's is the second-largest hardware chain^[5] in the U.S. behind The Home Depot and ahead of Menards. Globally, Lowe's is also the second-largest hardware chain, again behind The Home Depot and ahead of the European stores B&Q and OBI."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowe%27s

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).

Armadillo / Tatou on a MAXICARD / DORINCARD from PORTUGAL

2012-01-19T05:51:00.001-05:00

The bottom-third of his body looks like a 90 degrees-tilted heart with edgy lobes, sort of.

Please visit: http://clytie-randomhearts.blogspot.com/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012

Guest Heart Thursday #93

Welcome to Guest Heart Thursday -
A place to share YOUR heart!

Watch this amazing videoclip!!! Family Rescued by Navy Construction Crew From Car Dangling Off Freeway Bridge

2012-01-18T09:21:00.000-05:00

My UNICATE / UNIKAT MAXICARD with red and yellow roses, made with a lenticular / 3D / stereoscopic postcard. Click to see the pictorial postmark from Rosebud, Missouri 63091, USA

2012-01-17T06:39:00.001-05:00

In case you don't see the postmark, see it here:

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/World%20collections/United%20States/USA452.jpg