COVER N. 758 - CANADA
POSTCARD N.243
Postcard image: Northern Ligfhts on Summit Peak Trail, Stone Mountain provincial Park

Postmark: None

Posted on ?;  Received on the 14th August 2026

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Daylin sends me a Postcrossing postcard inside a curious envelope made of pretty uncommon paper since it is obtained from Elephant poop fibbers, in Thailand...  quite singular,... Thanks Daylin.

Unfortunately, the envelope isn't postmarked, what if anything, only accentuates what I feel about Canada Post "From Far and Wide" definitive series stamps: outstanding places, beautiful photographs, but minuscule stamps, that should be viewed under a magnifier.... or, better yet, a microscope, for even though the stamp carries a legend indicating what is the place in the photograph, it just can't be read without that kid of device...

Anyway, the image on the stamp is that of Qarlinngua Sea Arch, Nunavut, a 50 meter tall natural rock formation located on the Brodeur Peninsula of Baffin Island, Canada's largest island, in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut. 

The stamp is part of a set of four issued on 13JAN2025 (1.44; 1.75; 2.61;3.65 Canadian Dollars). The four stamps are new and higher face value reprints of part of the "From Far and Wide" series issue of 2024, which comprised 9 values.

The postcard Daylin sent features a very nice photo of the northern lights, taken in Stone Mountain Provincial Park in British Columbia.

I was about to write that this is the sort of image that I have always aspired to capture but cannot, due to my being so down south, but as it turns out, in the last two years  northern lights were seen in the north of Portugal (redder and much dimmer than in the photo, but still...) so maybe I will be able to watch and shoot them one of these days 😂

Of course I can always go to Canada...