Unofficial First Day Locations: #4479 - Pinehurst, NC; #4481 - Pinebluff, NC

Original watercolor painting then photographed and arranged to fit a custom envelope template, laser printed on 8.5" x 11", Southworth linen Gray 28lb 100% cotton paper. Each envelope was cut from that paper using an Ellison Prestige Pro Cutter with a custom 6-3/4 envelope die and hand-assembled. Only 50 were made.

Text of Cachet, Back:

Pinehurst, North Carolina and Pinebluff, North Carolina are both small towns nestled among the towering Longleaf pines of the Sandhills. Pinehurst is well known as a golfing mecca and Pinebluff is a peaceful village where longleafs line the pretty streets of an older town. Two of the four pines depicted on the Forevergreens 2010 Holiday issue are described below and illustrated in my cachet, along with the beautiful longleaf pines of the Sandhills of North Carolina.

Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar, Red Cedar, Eastern Juniper, Red Juniper, Pencil Cedar) is a species of juniper native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, east of the Great Plains.

Picea pungens (Colorado Blue Spruce or Blue Spruce) is a species of spruce native to western North America, from southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming, south through Utah and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico. It grows at high altitudes