Four Seasons Publishing Art Calendars and Wall Calendars

The paintings in this year's 2012 calendar are reflections of some of our travels and experiences over several years.

This past January we had a winter-wonderland sort of storm. Hardly any wind and huge snowflakes coming down by the bucketful. You can see the kind of day it was from the image of our local fish market Harbor Fish, on Custom House Wharf in Portland. They ship lobsters by the way.

July's Le Meridien Hotel came from a quick sketch that Peter did on his Palm Pilot when we were in Boston on a spring weekend. Peter painted the adobe house and fruit tree (September) a few years ago in Santa Fe, NM.

The March still life of lilies was set up in front of some of our dining room drapery fabric. February's colorful image is a street scene in our favorite winter getaway in Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, an historic Colonial town from Mexico's Revolutionary Days, in the mountains at about 7,000 ft.

Paris is the place to be in April, of course, and here is a glimpse of the river traffic on the Seine with the old and beautiful Pont Neuf bridge. Peter has taken many spring trips to an old villa in rural Tuscany, Castello di Spannocchia (May). Its extensive grounds are now an organic farm that offers farm internship programs and short term lodging for tourists (and painters, of course).

November's antebellum house in Beaufort, South Carolina is surrounded by palmettos and flowering camellia bushes. June is overlooking Maine's downeast coast, and October features some fall foliage near St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Peter painted the August scene of a waterfront in Nantucket when we were there several years ago.

December is a view of our neighbor's house, across the street, covered in light fluffy snow in brilliant sunshine with their beautiful Christmas wreaths.