Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Collections

Besides writing, tell us about a hobby you have. How did you discover it? How long have you been doing it?

Quote:
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/stamp-collecting.html

Geography Found in Hobbies

My lifelong hobby is stamp collecting. It's more like a hobby than anything else I do. Grandma Fellows my first husbands grandmother got me started. Date was June of 1962. We honeymooned at her cottage on Lake Erie. She took us out in her boat and scolded Richard for trying to make me sea sick with his stories about how big the lake was.

She started me on collecting stamps. When I was seriously interested she gave me a group of stamps from an Island. I promised I would never sell them and I never have. At the time the stamps were illegal to own, but that isn't true any more, so probably the value has diminished. She gave me a cat which I carted off to Texas with me.

I don't stamp collect with any seriousness any more. Probably haven't added any since about 1990's. One of the fascinating things about stamp collecting is not just the beautiful artwork, but also how many things you learn about the countries who issue them. Once in while, I get out the collection; which has grown beyond the book Richard bought for the original collection. USA stamps have always been intricate. The older ones are not so much beautiful but have intricate designs and artwork. Now more photograph art than handwork art.

I like geography. Stamp collecting is part of that interest in other countries.

Coyote singing at 3 a.m. Hope it doesn't stay around. Sooner or later someone will shoot it. Probably eating stray cats and rabbits.

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