2015 US Summer Harvest Forever Stamps

2015 US Summer Harvest Forever StampsHipsters, take note: The new Summer Harvest stamps are made for you. The four stamps, issued July 11,2015, showcase cantaloupes, sweet corn, tomatoes and watermelons. The artwork evokes vintage crate labels from the 19th and 20th centuries. In a new essay on the Atlantic news site, writer Steven Heller suggests the stamps could help the Postal Service connect with the young urbanites driving the nations interest in organic and locally sourced food.

green or blue

A Pennsylvania barn is a barn design popular in the United States from around 1790 to 1900

Others see just a floating ball of light

The stamp features art director Antonio Alcals painting of Earth

to now being worn on the wrist

will feature a photograph of an orange flower against a white background

millions of gardeners bury bulbs in the earth

Cactus nomenclature is in flux

issued July 11

Thirteen small colonies struggled for fair treatment from their mother country

The most common story tells of the animals racing across a river to determine their order inthe cycle

and blue that grace this vertical floral illustration