A striking scrambled egg colour attracted my attention from a distance. A young Chicken in the Wood fungi (Laetiporus sulphureus) looking as fresh as spring. #fungi #tree

The sun has proved unreliable this year. Somewhere🎶the sun has got its hat on, hip hip hurray, the sun has got its hat on and its coming out to play🎶 2007: Nostalgic Tourism. Poster by the illustrator Percy Tromp (1902-1964) "At the Beach" #philately #stamps #beach #Australia

Happy #WorldBicycleDay Pedal powered postmen on Raleigh bikes outside Palazzo Parisio in Valetta which housed the Maltese GPO from 1866-1973 (apart from when it was temporarily moved during WW2) 2009: Vintage Postal Transport #philately #bikes #post #Malta

Red footed Falcons. Birds that like to flock together in colonies but do not build their own nest, they use rook nests found when returning from S Africa to breed in Eastern Europe (April-August) 1968: Protected Birds - Design - Fule Mihaly (1914-2005) #philately #birds #Hungary

A sign overcome with umbellifers but the windmill still points onward #FingerpostFriday #Derbyshire

This way or that way? Only the squirrels know #FingerpostFriday #Derbyshire

Island living 1978: Birds of the Bailiwick #philately #birds #Guernsey #Stamps

If you don't know where you are going then any road will take you there said the Cheshire Cat 1979: The Year of the Child (Design Edward Hughes; Illustration John Tenniel (1820-1914) #philately #Cat #books #stamp

#UniversalReach: For Swiss Post, no distance is too great & no mountain too high 🏔 From narrow #mountain routes to the snowy Alpine slopes, #Switzerland’s #PostBuses navigate at altitudes of thousands of metres, ensuring that even the most remote villages stay connected🏡

Some of Team GB arrived by train on the Eurostar's 1st ever golden coloured train for the Olympics. A year before this stamp was issued construction on the Channel Tunnel began (opened in 1994) 1989: 200th Anniversary of the French Revolution #philately #stamp #Paris

The cyclist may be pedalling the coast to coast route but the cows are spending the warm day just chilling out #fingerpostfriday #Cumbria

Andean Condor in legend an intermediary between the physical and spirit realms with dominion over the sky. A wingspan of 3m and able to fly over 100km without flapping their wings Issued for the Argentina '85 International Stamp Exhibition, Buenos Aires #philately #bird #Cuba

Verdant sign of summer #fingerpostfriday #Cumbria

1986: Europa - Nature Conservation Artist - Hans Erni Engraver - Karl Bickel Jr #philately #Switzerland #Nature #stamp

Way above the clouds #FingerpostFriday #Cumbria

Orange lily Its Latin name of Lilium bulbifernum refers to the little bulbs that the plant produces on its stem 1966 Protected Flowers (Designer - Mihaly Füle) #philately #flower #stamp #Hungary

Turn right at the shed on the Bay Cycle Way #FingerpostFriday #cumbria

Veiltailed goldfish 1990: Goldfish (a popular subject on Vietnamese stamps) #philately #fish #Vietnam

We are at peak northern lights in the current solar cycle. AuroraWatch UK shows no significant activity in the UK today so here are some pretty lights from Sweden 2016: Northern Lights #philately #northernlights #stamps #Sweden

A rotund goldcrest 1998: Birds (5th definitive series) Artist - the Irish ornithologist Killian Mullarney #philately #stamp #bird #Ireland