Sometimes we receive something in the mail which should not immediately be thrown into the trash.  Year end solicitation, in our house, usually are thrown away with all there mailing labels - our address was recently changed so the throw away has been easy - we have a couple of thousand left over from the old address anyway - but one arrived which has lain around for a week or so.  It is the annual Art Calender 2015 from the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists organization,  How they got our names I don't remember but this years calender did not hit the trash.

Each month of the calender has a reproduction of a painting with the artists name and a quotation from some famous person.  January 2015 artist Trevor Wells, the quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."   The painting that  prompted this blog is from a reproduction of "Spirit Of The Season" by Tony Ryals.  The quotation by W.T. Ellis, "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."

Maybe this is the challenge for 2014 as well as 2015 ---- a whole year in advance!