2015 Calendar
My calendar this year combines photos from the fifties by my father with lessons I learned from my mother in a hopefully heart-warming montage each month. Below is the holiday greeting that explains it!
This calendar, if printed, is 4.6 X 5.4 in., designed to fit into a CD-style easel case. To download the calendar for viewing or printing, click the cover image below. (3/29/15: The calendar now contains a critical correction to the December page!)
Happy Holidays!
’Tis the time I begin to reflect on my year
With the idea of sending out holiday cheer.
But instead of the usual daily banalities,
It seems recent months dealt out harsher realities.
Family and friends who are with us no more;
Politics, mayhem, pandemics, and war.
“To hell in a handbasket,” my mother would say,
And think I, as I hear world news every day.
This season of global and personal drama
Has me thinking back to my Papa and Mama,
To my youth, to a seemingly simpler era—
A black-and-white time when the rules appeared clearer.
Please indulge me this moment of further reflection.
While subjecting my past to a closer inspection,
I’ve combined my father’s mid-century photos
With my mother’s advice, her warnings, her mottoes.
This calendar sports quite a personal feel
But I hope the result has some global appeal.
Month after month, please just know what I mean—
I wish you a fabulous twenty-fifteen!
Calendar Image Credits:
Featured photography: Robert Scott Taylor
Background notebook: © iStockphoto.com/AndrisTkachenko
Paper stack: JupiterImages/Milos Luzanin
Cover illustrations blatantly stolen from the internet (with thanks)
Camera: eofdreams.com
Typewriter: Ceridwen Hazelchild Design
Images not mentioned are royalty-free or public-domain sources.
Alphabet Adventure
During a trip in spring 2012 to visit my grandchildren, Henry and Oliver, we embarked on an alphabet adventure. We found letters everywhere we went—downtown, in the yard, at the park, on errands, everywhere! We photographed all the letters we found. Both boys were excellent hunters. What a thrill it was to see little Ollie, who had only recently learned to recognize his letters, find “a lower-case Y” in a tree root! Here is our project, published not an alphabet book. (I used Mixbook for this project, a very fun photo site):
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/alphabet-adventure-7883206?vk=l7Erh9Zizl
2011 Calendar
My holiday gift to you! Time flies . . . so capture a moment and make it last. Twelve months featuring family collages and Victorian-era bird illustrations. Feel free to download for onscreen viewing or printing. (Click the link reading _2011_Calendar_12mos-online to download. Let me know if you have any trouble with the PDF. 6.6 mbs)
2011 Calendar—Time flies, so capture a moment and make it last!
BTG imagery 