Stationery Selections - "2008 CALENDAR"

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The 2008 Literary Calligraphy calendar features 12 of Susan Loy's watercolor paintings featuring literary and Biblical quotations about Nature. Along with these beautiful paintings, you'll enjoy the entertaining quotes, literary birthdays, lunar phases, holidays, and other goodies interspersed throughout the calendar grid. We personally write and oversee every detail of calendar production -- done entirely Bedford County, VA. Our 11th calendar is an economical way to enjoy Susan's past and current art.

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.

Susan tells about the 2008 calendar...

Nature is my benefactor, a source of inspiration for my life as well as my art. I'm fortunate to live in the country, surrounded by wild nature, where I can observe many of the flowers, birds, and trees that appear in my art work. In my garden, I grow heirloom flowers and vegetables. Nature surrounds us with an ever changing display of beauty.

The writers featured in my 2008 Literary Calligraphy® Calendar express different aspects of Nature in different seasons of the year. Shakespeare begins the year, reminding us that many herbs "keep seeming and savour all the winter long." Whitman celebrates the love of nature that two can share, in "We Two," featured in February, "we are nature... we are oaks... we are what locust blossoms are." In "To My Sister," shown in March, Wordsworth invites his sister to join him outdoors with the redbreast, where one moment in nature "may give us more than years of toiling reason." Spring is described as "the sweet o' the year" by Shakespeare, presented in April, "when daffodils begin to peer, with heigh! the doxy over the dale." Longfellow honors the flower-de-luce, the iris, "fair among the fairest," shown in May. According to John Burroughs, featured in June, nature is one of the three most precious resources of life, "an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind, and fires the imagination."

Emerson, showcased in July, tells us that roses live for the moment, "they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day." Keats's immortal line, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever," is featured in August. The second chapter of the Song of Solomon, shown in September, begins "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley," beginning a love song filled with images from nature, "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." Thoreau, featured in October, reminds us of one of the benefits of nature -- to remind us of things forgotten and of serenity. Showcased in November, Dickinson celebrates the autumn -- "The Maple wears a gayer scarf -- the field a scarlet gown -- Lest I should be old fashioned I'll put a trinket on." In December, Southey pays homage to the holly tree, which means foresight in the Language of Flowers. One ancient custom was to keep a sprig of holly in the house to carry forward good luck into the new year. Good luck to you throughout the year!

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