Photo by Sarah Coyne
Artist Sarah Coyne managed to put together two of the things I love (National Parks and mail) into one amazing project: Post for the Parks. Not only is Sarah going to create one watercolor painting for each of the 59 National Parks, she is also going to mail that painting to the National Park depicted. 59 parcels for 59 parks. I'm so excited to watch the project unfold.
She has an awesome package created for each parcel that includes "formal paper work," aka: a letter, stickers, and certificate, to accompany each painting. Sarah is doing this project on a weekly basis, and while she is not expecting a response from the parks, I think she'll get some. I'm excited to see what the rangers say.
Photo by Sarah Coyne
Tomorrow she sends out a parcel to Crater Lake (top of my list for NPs to visit) and next week she'll start the painting for Wind Cave. You can keep a track of her process here.
Photo by Sarah Coyne
Can we also talk about how awesome her rubber stamp is for this project? LOVE. You can read more about how this project was born and keep track of Post for the Parks on the project's Tumblr.
The coolness of this speaks to me on a higher level. Why can't I be this creative?
Posted by: Alyssabeth | January 28, 2015 at 08:27 AM
WOW! SO Awesome! I want to be a Head Park Ranger just so that I can receive one of these!
Posted by: CMN | January 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM
That is SOOOOOO awesome!!Bravo, Sarah! I also adore the rubberstamp!
Posted by: Bethany Lee | January 28, 2015 at 02:39 PM
So creative in everything she does! A truly amazing person.
Posted by: E Glavin | January 28, 2015 at 03:53 PM
I've just found your site, and have just joined as an international member (I live in England). Can't wait to join in letter swaps, book group (84 Charing Cross Road is an all-time favourite!!) and all the lovely stuff you have going on :)
So happy I stumbled across you - is there a button I can put on my blog to show I'm a member??
Posted by: Claire | January 29, 2015 at 04:49 AM
Hi Claire,
Thank you so much for becoming part of our letter writing community! There is a button you can add to your blog alllll the way on the bottom of the blog side bar. It is right before the Flickr photoset. You should see "The LWA Button" and there will be code that you can copy and paste to put on your blog.
Posted by: Kathy Zadrozny | January 29, 2015 at 07:48 AM
I am in love with this project! There are 59 lucky park rangers out there!! I'm so pleased that she is doing this. I imagine the rangers sometimes feel unappreciated. So I'm delighted that they will receive this amazing parcel.
Posted by: Michele | January 29, 2015 at 02:45 PM
Does she sell that stamp? I loooove it
Posted by: chelsea | June 18, 2015 at 03:59 PM