Out on the Porch Calendar 2010

This is one of my favorite calendars every year. It is so easy to imagine being in the picture relaxing on the porch.

I discovered the Out on the Porch calendar years ago and was immediately smitten with its combination of snippets of prose from well-loved novels and its sumptuous photos of various porches from around the U.S. and the world. The perfect mix of geography, culture and literature. I hang it up at work and escape into it ten times a day, sipping iced tea on a rattan chair on a porch overlooking the sea in Borneo, or staring out at a wintry scene from a porch in the deep woods of Maine. Beware of the knock-offs; there are lots of porch calendars out there, but the only "real deal," in my view, is the one published by Algonquin Books, with the excerpts of prose on each page. Don't fall for the impostors.

Just what I requested. An added bonus was the 12 free postcards of the pictures from each month of the calendar...a nice surprise. It tells the story of where the porch is located, or the city, state, country where picture was taken. Its colorful and not an ordinary blah calendar...layout of squares/months are arranged on the pages differently to make it different and fun! Thanks.