In 2006 my brother Tom sent me a Roundabouts of Derby calendar.  It is the kind of thing I like, off-beat and quirky.

I wrote about it at the time on the blog.  In December I made a calendar for the family using Shutterfly.  So I was thinking about calendars when we went to New Mexico and had the idea for The Mobile Homes of New Mexico” calendar. It was not that well received so now I have a list of ideas for quirky calendars:

• Trailer Parks of Southern California
• Strip malls of Las Vegas
• Trash Cans of America (get a picture of a galvanized trash can before they are all gone)
• Hospital waiting rooms of the world
• Dead house plants
• Abandoned Subdivisions of Arizona

What I’m trying to illustrate here is how by having an open mind ideas can combine,  recombine and morph into new idea and if you let the process go on long enough one of the ideas will turn out to be a good one.  One of the important things is to be testing the ideas with others, getting their feedback, adjusting and then retesting.

This is a roundabout near my brothers home.  Here are some samples of my new ideas:

January (Trash Cans of America)

February (Trailer Parks of Southern California)