February 2023 Desktop Calendar
It’s the San Juan Ridge, and on the right it’s Lookout Mountain. This was on the famous (to some) San Juan Skyway just south of Telluride, CO. It was a calm October day – but that’s how the mountains...
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With the glorious month that heralds SPRING hereabouts – I will simply say that I am okay if the next 31 days “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb”. I also came to find out that “March Comes...
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Let’s head right back to the Merwin Preserve in Central Illinois for the second month in a row… Spring cometh to Central Illinois, except this year it’s April that is coming in like a lion. A little...
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Eegads, it’s three straight months of the Merwin Preserve in Central Illinois… it’s just so Spring. And we need that right now. As we’ve said before, April is often a cruel month in Illinois. You’ve...
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We head to the Badlands of South Dakota for our first warm weather calendar of the year. Standing over the Pinnacles Overlook near the west entrance in July of ’21, the majesty of the Badlands jumps...
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As summer rolls in, we head back to the high country of southeastern Wyoming in the Snowy Range. Standing at the western end of Lookout Lake as it sits beneath the slightly more distant 12,013′ summit...
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Normally we might save this for winter – but it’s a tropical breeze on a lovely and mostly empty beach – and that is good ANY TIME OF YEAR. We take you down to St. John in the US Virgin Islands, and...
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Taking a slightly different direction this month – a very Peoria-focused one at that. Public art has grown by leaps and bounds in Peoria over the last few years. One of the big pushes comes from...
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It’s been about 28 months since we’ve featured that mighty Burr Oak from Dillon, IL, as a calendar – so time to go again. Originally titled as Tree 49, it’s now calendar #177. Taken well after sunset,...
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It’s a yin and yang thing. Last month we featured the very same tree but in a very low key set-up. We’ll go nearly to the other end of the spectrum, with a little high key (corn at least) of The Tree...
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After two months of a tree in Central Illinois, we’ve gone in a different direction this month. With windchills at 14 degrees two days ago – it was time to warm the place up. Standing on the island of...
View ArticleJanuary 2024 Desktop Calendar
This calendar wraps up year 15 of calendars – which seems a little crazy in my mind. 180 desktop calendars. Had it been a sunset instead of a sunrise, maybe I would’ve just stopped here. But as it is...
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Keeping the warm weather beach scene going for one more month – why not step onto a nice beach on Maui? In fact, we’re going to head about a quarter-mile north of last month’s image at Makena Cove and...
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Sticking with the tropical theme until Spring officially springs. So don’t be surprised to be waiting until May – but we will get there. On the big island of Hawaii, at the southern most tip is the...
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When we choose to abandon the tropical theme that occupied the last five chilly months, we do so in a way that does not hide that fact. We take you to the famed Factory Butte, just west of nowhere in...
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