Staff Reports
INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the natural world with the recent release of Enjoy the Great Outdoors stamps.
The stamp art depicts five scenes of various outdoor activities: building a sandcastle, hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing and biking. In these hand-sketched and painted designs, artist Gregory Manchess used light and shadow to evoke a sense of wonder for these remarkable landscapes.
Surrounding the pane of 20 stamps is a painting showing trees and the bank of a body of water. The small figures of a canoe in the water and a man standing ashore holding an oar are visible at the top of the selvage. The title “Enjoy the Great Outdoors” appears right above the pane of stamps in white lettering.
These stamps are available post offices locations nationwide and at usps.com/outdoors.
