Friday Five: Time Marches On

I took a sneak peak at the pictures that were coming up on my calendars for the next month. I love calendars and I've got five of them around the house in various rooms. These are going to be my pictorial companions for the next 31 days.

Laus Veneris by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

5 March Images:

1. Laus Veneris by Edward Burne-Jones (Art of the Pre-Raphaelites)
2. Pendle Hill and Barley from Heys Lane by Keith Melling (Pendleside Calendar paintings by Keith Melling)
3. Bisti Landscape, New Mexico by Joe Cornish (Landscape Light: Points from the compass)
4. Church Street, Old Amersham by Colin Tuffrey (The Chilterns in watercolour)
5. Mt Kosciuszko and Main Range Circuit (photography by me)

View from the top of Mt Kosciuszko

Friday Five: Calendars



Bamburgh Castle - Joe Cornish

A New Year means new calendars - I love calendars; great pictures that change every month for variety and colour in the corner of your office/ kitchen/ bathroom. Of course, they are functional for recording holidays, doctor appointments and Liverpool football matches (and mother's day - an important one that) but I reckon you can tell a lot about a person by their choice of calendar. The number I own is only limited by the available space I have to hang them. So you can make of this what you will, without further ado...

My 5 2013 Calendars:

1. One I made myself featuring photos I've taken over the past year of places I've been
2. Joe Cornish's Landscape Light - an annual gift from my sister of fabulous scenic photos of North East England with an unexpected perspective
3. The Chilterns in watercolour - I bought this when I was back in England; with pictures of Marlow, Henley,Cookham Dean, Hughenden Manor and Christmas Common, how could I refuse?
4. Railway Poster Art from the National Railway Museum collection - all the vibrant prints are designed to promote to travel to areas of Britain, such as Devon, North Wales or the Lake District - the one for the Yorkshire Dales boasts 'a land of narrow valleys and attractive villages, of heather-covered hills and moors, of ancient abbeys and castles, the principal dales are readily accessible by rail and form a holiday paradise for walkers, anglers and all who prefer the quiter place'.
5. London Underground Diary - yes, well done eagle-eyed readers; it's a diary, but it has got brilliant images of posters from the 1910s to the 1960s and 'interesting facts' about the tube - this week I learned that 'during peak hours more than 500 trains are in operation'.

Artwork by Ronald Lampitt