Stationery Selections - "2011 CALENDAR"
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The theme of Susan Loy's 2011 Literary Calligraphy® calendar is the four seasons. It includes twelve of her watercolors that incorporate some aspect of the seasons. Throughout the calendar, we have also included quotations about the change of seasons and the various qualities of the four seasons, as English poet William Browne expressed, "There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter, and the spring."
Each month features a different full-page image on the top, with a full-page monthly grid below (including past and future months) providing a perfect combination of beauty and utility. The 12" x 12" format opens to 12" x 24" – large enough to display intricate detail and allow ample room for writing in important dates.
In addition to the full quotations for each of the full-page images, you'll enjoy reading the entertaining quotations by selected writers, lunar phases, holidays, previous and next year at-a-glance and other goodies interspersed throughout the calendar grid. We produce the entire calendar in-house and have it printed locally by Bison Printing in Bedford County, Virginia. Our 14th calendar is an economical way to enjoy Susan's past and current art.
From the 2011 calendar, Susan explains how she chose the images and provides links to the images elsewhere on our web site:
One of the reasons that I have lettered the verse from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 so many times is because it so perfectly expresses the change of seasons. The calendar year begins with this wisdom, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." "There’s a certain slant of light, winter afternoons," according to Emily Dickinson, featured in February. William Wordsworth's poem, "Daffodils," is showcased in March. April celebrates "The Flowers in Spring" with the poetry of dozens of writers from Homer to Rumi to Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence. May continues the celebration with "William Shakespeare's Flowers of Spring." James Russell Lowell asks, "What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days," and William Wordsworth describes a perfect July day in "Tintern Abbey." August features "The Flowers of Keats," who asks, "What is more gentle than a wind in summer?" September highlights the sunflower and a letter that William Butler Yeats wrote to Katharine Tynan in September 1888, describing the sunflower and virginia creeper outside his window. October features an entry from Henry David Thoreau’s journal dated October 7, 1842 and comparing the crimson hues of the purple finch to the hues of October evenings. "William Shakespeare's Flowers of Autumn," presented in November, pays homage to the season, "that time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang upon those boughs." The year is complete with "Poinsettia" and Claude McKay’s happy memories of December.
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