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Annual Calendar/Poem
It has long been my habit to write a poem near the end of each year. In the past, I sent it out to my e-mail lists and to others online or used it instead of a holiday card. Some years, the poem needed a photograph. The 2006 poem needed not just one but a full dozen photographs. It became a calendar, fully illustrated, and by request the calendar became the new annual tradition. I have been asked to put the illustrated poems here, yet I strongly feel they are print items, not something to look at briefly and click away from.
Here is the cover photo from the 2009 calendar, taken in July 2008 above the old ski bowl on Mt. Shasta, in northern California. This was a summer when the mountain had held onto very little snow, so the colors in the rock provide an interesting backdrop for the high-elevation trees.
The 2009 poem is Mountains and Trees, and this is how it begins:
The 2007 and 2008 calendars each surpassed the success of the calendar from the year before. As in the previous calendars, I have chosen not to enhance the colors. I removed a couple of streetlights from these photos, but did not change the colors provided by Mother Nature in the form of mountains, trees and all that live in and around those mountains and trees. As always, I hope you enjoy the results.
The 2009 calendar is my new favorite, with another series of beautiful photos accompanying a thoughtful poem. Here’s one more preview for you, November’s photo of the “bones” of a dead tree, driftwood on the beach in Port Ludlow, Washington on Thanksgiving Day.
This year’s calendar comes in only one size: 8.5 by 11 inches. Shipping within the U.S. is included in the $18.99 price for this calendar with its frame-worthy prints of Northern California and Western Washington scenes. To order, e-mail Chas.
And have yourself a very Happy 2009!
Chas
updated July 20, 2009
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