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For some years I’ve been putting together a wall calendar for my mom with nature photos I’ve taken, using an online company that prints it out and mails it to me. I know physical wall calendars are anachronistic these days (I don’t even have them myself except for tide calendars), but my mom, 93, is one of the few folks who still uses them for noting scheduled events, appointments etc. Appreciation for beauty is something we share, as well as creative artistic endeavors, and to my mind xmas gifts should be based on what we share with a recipient.
I’m still putting together next year’s calendar — this xmas’s gift — but in keeping with my tradition over the past few years I’m posting a bucket with the picture pages from the previous year’s calendar. Each collection of photos has a theme; 2018’s was Flotsam. She’s been looking at these pictures this past year.
Flotsam is what floats by itself, jetsam is what is deliberately thrown away (en.m.wikipedia.org/...). No pictures of plastic garbage here, even though that’s ubiquitous now on beaches :( Rather, I used some driftwood, seaweed, sediment, seafoam, shells that I’ve seen washed up on beaches in the Northwest and the Caribbean. These images are screenshots from the online company’s pages where I made it.
As always, I turn December’s page into a collage of family photos that relate to the theme of the year. In this case, it’s stuff that’s washed up on the beach.
There are several companies that do these calendars, with varying levels of customizing and personalizing them. I use Shutterfly, and opt for a plain white background. If you know of someone who still uses a physical wall calendar, you still have time to make one of these yourself.
Previous editions of “Mom’s Calendars” buckets:
2017 www.dailykos.com/...
2016 www.dailykos.com/...
2015 www.dailykos.com/...
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Clear and cold this morning. 34°. No wind. Sun just coming up now at 8:20 am.
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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