The USPS has been over the top busy issuing commemorative
stamps in the past couple of months. One of the recent offerings is a sheet set
to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of our National Parks
System. The have chosen 16 parks to represent the whole. Some are in pristine
rural areas and others in urban places. They include parks in Alabama, Alaska,
Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, South
Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C. and Wyoming.
Would I have been responsible for the design, I would have
nixed the paintings in place of all photos for the Grand Canyon National Park,
the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, and Bandelier National
Monument. And two, I would have switched out Carlsbad Caverns National Park
with Mammoth Cave National Park for more geographic diversity (and New Mexico
already has a stamp on the sheet). But still: They are beautiful! The four I
have also highlight represent the ones from the sheet that I have also visited.
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