[Pollinator] Stamp celebrations - Tucson artist Jacki Springer

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 New stamps unveiled June 29 at Tohono Chul

 

 

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Bee Ready for Pollinator Week - June 24-30


June 13, 2007

 

 The U.S. Postal Service will unveil its new pollinator stamps June 29 at 
Tohono Chul Park.

The unveiling will take place at 9 a.m., and the desert park near West Ina 
Road and North Paseo del Norte, will serve as a temporary post office until 
noon, allowing stamp collectors to buy first-day commemoratives and send mail with 
the postal service’s first day of issue postmarks.

The four-stamp set commemorates nature’s desert pollinators with art designed 
by Steve Buchanan.

According to USPS’s web site, the stamps will show two Morrison’s bumblebees 
paired with purple, or chaparral, nightshade; a calliope hummingbird sipping 
from a hummingbird trumpet blossom; a lesser long-nosed bat preparing to dive 
into a saguaro flower; and a Southern dogface butterfly visiting prairie, or 
common, ironweed.

The graphic scheme emphasizes the ecological relationship between pollinators 
and plants and also hints at the biodiversity necessary to ensure the future 
viability of that relationship.

The four designs are arranged in two alternate blocksA that fit together like 
interlocking puzzles. In one block, the pollinators form a central starburst. 
In the other, the flowers are arranged in the center.

The commemorative envelopes were designed by Tucson artist, Jacki Springer, 
with one in honor of each stamp.

The images depict each of the four mountain ranges surrounding Tucson and 
native Sonoran plants.

All purchases made at “Tohono Chul Park Station” will be hand cancelled with 
a unique postage cancel marking the date and location.

 Jacki Springer, noted, “My intention when creating these first day covers 
was to try and compliment Mr. Buchanan’s beautiful stamps and to convey to the 
public the essence of light and shadow and mountain that is Tucson.

“My goal to ‘connect’ to the Pollinator stamps was to show some of the 
different types of flowering plants that are native to Tucson and live here at 
Tohono Chul Park,” Springer added.

Admission to the park will be free. Commemorative envelopes will be available 
for $3 each or $10 for the set of four.
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