My Planet Golf finally arrived and now I can look out over the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort from my office chair for at least the remainder of the month.
The pictures are the top half of the calendar which is the main appeal for purchase in the first place. The 13 scenes photographed by John and Jeannine Hennebry are magnificent, capturing the serenity and beauty of far off places from Scotland and Ireland to Hawaii and even Nebraska. (I didn't know they had grass in NE). The 13th allows one to start early from September of the previous year.
The bottom half is the practical side of the calendar. The top part of the bottom part (if that makes any sense) tells the user about the picture above, the course designer, the hole, and when the course opened. Another picture of the same course is on the right almost as a smaller screen. The rest of the bottom is where we find the actual purpose of the product. Despite its dimensions, the numbers in the boxes are not so big that they can be easily identified from a distance of 12 or 15 feet. The days of the week are included above the boxes, where they should be, but only in one language, which shouldn't be tough to translate for the rest of the Gregorian-calendar-using-world. (Unfortunately that means we will lose three leap year days every four centuries).
If you were hoping for information when would be the next full moon, you won't find it here, But you will learn that this will be the Year of the Dragon, that Canada Day is July 1 (eh), and that Palm Sunday and April Fool's Day are the same, and that means the second Friday will fall on the 13th as it always does when a month begins on a Sunday.
It will be interesting to see what these pictures bring. Pictures of last year never foretold of a tsunami devastating Japan, the cheer over the death of Osama bin Laden or the remorse over the death of Steve Jobs, the Arab Spring, the 77 murdered in Norway, that a media magnate would be tapping phones all over England, and the precipitous downfall of a coaching legend. Perhaps that is what draws me to the peace and beauty that can be found in these pictures. Here life is placid, drenched in sunshine, and it is pristine.
Hope you and I will be here when the next calendar comes due.
P.S. This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens
once every 823 years.
P.P.S. According to the Mayan calendar which I did not get because they don't have any golf courses, the world is supposed to end this year.