Decorating with evergreens during the winter holiday season is a popular and appealing tradition. In 2010, the U.S. Postal Service joined in the winter celebrations by issuing Holiday Evergreens (Forever), beautiful new stamps that feature closeup 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 plants and trees in his own yard as reference. He may have taken the same approach in working on this project. This stamp is a collectible item that is no longer available for purchase at the USPS. Each booklet has 20 forever stamps that can be used for mailing holiday cards and anything else, or put away in a collection.