Waterfalls Stamps

Among nature's most beautiful wonders, waterfalls come in all shapes and sizes, from serene cascades to mighty cataracts. TheU.S. Postal Service celebrates the variety and beauty of American waterfalls with 12 new stamps.
First row: Deer Creek Falls,Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. photo by Sandra Woods: Nevada Fal. Yosemite National ParkCalifornia, photo by Quang-Tuan Luong; Harrison Wright Falls, Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania, and Lower Falls of theYellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, photos by Kenneth Keifer.
Second row: Waimoku Falls, Haleakala National Park, Hawai, photo by Quang-Tuan Luong; Stewart Falls, Mount TimpanogosWilderness, Utah, photo by Nicole Nuent; Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls State Park, New York, photo by John Cancalosi; and DarkHollow Falls, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, photo by Quang-Tuan Luong.
Third row: Grotto Falls. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. photo by Joe Miler: Sunbeam Falls, Mount BainierNational Park, Washington, photo by Kevin Schater: LaSalle Canyon Waterfal, Starved Rock State Park, 0lesby, llinois. photo byDavid B. Vernon; and Upper Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, photo by Tim Fitzharris.
Framing the stamps is selvage that again features David B. Vernon's LaSalle Canyon image.A waterfall is part of a river or stream where its flow pours over a near vertical rocky ledge or cliff of some height before coming incontact with rocks or a pool below. Waterfalls can be classified by volume, height, and width; another popular method is by typebased on the way the water actually falls. One of the most famiiar types is the plunge, where the stream falls vertically withouttouching the underlving clif face; sometimes there are cavers behind the falls carved by earlier erosion. As the name suggests, afan waterfall resembles the shape of a fan as the flow spreads down the rocks. Other types include the cascade, which breaks intosmaller falls as the water descends over a slope of rocks and boulders, and the cataract, where large amounts of fast-movingwater plummet over a cliff to create a waterfall of great size and power
Each of the waterfalls is unicue, but what they all have in common is the way they kindle positive emotions, such as the serenitinstilled by a gentle cascade or the awe inspired by an immense cataract.
Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps and pane with existing photographs.The Waterfalls stamps are being issued as Forever@ stamps in panes of 12. Forever stamps are alwavs eaual in value to thecurrent First-Class Mail图 one-ounce price.
Made in the USA.
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