BAHAMAS

This lovely local coastal scene came to me from a visitor to the Bahamas, a low-lying Caribbean country. It was franked with a flora definitive showing the "poor man's orchid".

BAHAMAS

The Ponciana tree is an amazing sight throughout the Caribbean, livening up the landscape and scattering bright red petals below its shady branches; this card shows just such a scene on a street in Nassau

Bahamas: flora stamp

this lovely stamp came affixed to the card above, and shows the desert rose, a hardy local flowering plant