New ‘forever’ stamp features Idaho image

Published: September 27, 2012 

Tom Brakefield of Tennessee took the photo of log rafts on their way to a processing mill while he was a passenger on an ultralight aircraft.

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The U.S. Postal Service is debuting 15 new forever postage stamps: One is an aerial photograph of logs floating in an unidentified Idaho river, bound for a sawmill. Idaho’s Latin motto, esto perpetua, which means “let it endure forever,” could apply to the stamps, which always will cost 45 cents apiece.

Who’s the photographer? Tennesseean Tom Brakefield took the photo while riding in an ultra-light aircraft in 2005.

The stamps are part of the “Earthscapes” series It explores some of the nation’s most visually striking natural, agricultural and urban landscapes from the air — several hundred feet to several hundred miles high.

What else do we get to see? Fog drifting over Utah’s Monument Valley, highways resembling a basket weave, icebergs bobbing in a lake and more. Get the stamps: They will be available Oct. 1 in post offices nationwide.

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