conception and contraception calendar

(128 pages)

Audubon Engagement Calendar 2009 by: National Audubon Society publisher: Artisan released: 2008-06-01 ISBN: 1579653618 $10.39

A daily reminder of the Audubon mission to celebrate the earth's natural beauty—this week-at-a-glance datebook is a treasure. Here is unspoiled nature in dozens of spellbinding images—from panoramic landscapes to intimate moments, such as a butterfly alighting on a flower bud. A spider's web, glittering with beads of dew. Hyacinth Macaws perched on a tree branch. A meadow flushed with deep-red Indian Paintbrush. Utah's magnificent Delicate Arch, set aglow in the late-afternoon sun. Featuring spacious weekly grids, detailed captions for every photograph, and an elegant gift box.

This is the 10th year I've used this calendar, not because I'm a Society member, but because of the quality of the book. Its size (approx. 10x6)makes it portable, but each page has one week. I use the book as an appointment book and as a diary of events and have kept all back copies. They have helped me when I need to remember specific dates. The wide spaces for each date are convenient.
Oh, and the pictures opposite each week are stunning!

This engagement calendar is both useful and beautiful, combining gorgeous photographs with adequate space for notes.

These photos have more universal appeal and are more 'grand' than the 2008 Audubon Engagement Calendar. My clients have had the pleasant difficulty of limiting their choices to only the number we need for a given project - often they give framed photos from the calendar as gifts.

(28 pages)

Audubon 365 Songbirds and Other Backyard Birds Picture-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars) by: National Audubon Society publisher: Artisan released: 2008-06-01 ISBN: 1579653677 $10.39

For America's 70 million birders, 365 Songbirds presents the thrill of a new sighting every day. Close-up and in vivid full color, these are the familiar warblers that flit around the yard, perch on the feeder, and bring music and beauty to our daily lives. An American Goldfinch decked out in bright summer plummage, a robin's nest with a clutch of blue eggs, a Northern Cardinal perched on a snow-covered branch. Plus woodpeckers, jays, meadowlarks, sparrows, orioles, and jewel-like hummingbirds. In addition to the daily featured birds, one species is celebrated in depth each month, with a large photograph and detailed text.

I had this calendar for 2008 and loved seeing all of the beautiful pictures of the birds on every day of the month. I will definitely order it for 2009.

Bird Songs 2009 Wall Calendar by: Les Beletsky publisher: Chronicle Books Llc released: 2008-07-30 ISBN: 0811864421 $11.55

From the creators of the best-selling book Bird Songs, this wall calendar features illustrations of North American birds, with an attached sound device so bird lovers actually hear each bird's call. Includes a fold-out regional bird chart.

(24 pages)

Hummingbirds 2009 (Calendar) by: Firefly Books publisher: Nature released: 2008-05-23 ISBN: 1552973441 $9.79

Like dazzling jewels, hummingbirds tirelessly dart among flowers, probing for nectar with their needlelike bills. They are poetry in motion, their purring wings tracing a perpetual figure eight. Now you can marvel at a year of their delicate beauty, iridescent feathers, animated energy and extraordinary diversity. Watch them work and play, shimmer and flash in the sky with their stained-glass radiance. In Hummingbirds 2009, world-renowned nature photographers Michael and Patricia Fogden celebrate these tiny, alluring creatures. Informative captions shed further light on the secret and very busy lives of hummingbirds.

(12 pages)

Sibley: The Birder's Year 2009 Wall Calendar (Calendar) by: David Allen Sibley publisher: Animal released: 2008-08-01 ISBN: 1416280537 $11.19

Hailed as a modern-day John James Audubon, David Allen Sibley has quickly become one of North America's most famous bird illustrators. Each month features reproductions of his finely detailed species portraits along with a range map and text pointing out key identification marks, behavior, and habitat information.

(24 pages)

Owls 2009 (Calendar) by: Firefly Books publisher: Nature released: 2008-05-23 ISBN: 1552973492 $11.19

The subject of myth and superstition, the owl is instantly distinguished by its disconcerting stare and haunting cry. It is a mysterious and fearsome predator, a flawless hunter in the darkest of nights. It stakes out its territory on a perch high above and then, floating on silent wings, swoops down to snatch its unsuspecting prey. But with its wise face and downy plumage, the owl is also among nature's most photogenic and pleasing creatures. In Owls 2009, world-renowned nature photographers capture every aspect of this splendid bird in candid and remarkable images. Descriptive captions further reveal the mysterious lives of owls.

(112 pages)

Birds: 2009 Engagement Calendar by: The New York Public Library, John James Audubon publisher: Universe Publishing released: 2008-08-01 ISBN: 0789317141 $11.19

Presented are 52 beautifully rendered bird images created by John James Audubon and featured in his monumental nineteenth-century book Birds of America, still considered the gold standard of bird artistry.* The only engagement calendar featuring images of the original plates from Birds of America.

* Informative extended captions about each bird species.

(24 pages)

Just Horses 2009 Calendar (Just) by: The New York Public Library, John James Audubon publisher: Pets released: 2008-06-30 ISBN: 1595436677 $11.19

The Just Horses calendar will delight all that are enthralled by equine beauty, majesty, history and romanticism. This calendar features 12 full color beautiful photos of horses.