Holiday Evergreens

Decorating with evergreens during the winter holiday season is a popular and appealing tradition. In 2010, the U.S. Postal Service joins in the winter celebrations by issuing Evergreens, beautiful new stamps that feature close-up views of the foliage and cones of four different conifers: ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, blue spruce, and balsam fir.

The artist, the late Ned Seidler, was a gifted painter of nature subjects. When painting flora, he frequently used cuttings from his own yard. He most likely took the same approach in painting the four Evergreens stamp designs.