the cows and chickens watch me sew

The Hoard's Dairyman calendar is an annual gift from my sister Janna.

The paintings clockwise from upper left:

Pollarded trees and Maas-Rijn-IJssel cows by Ada Schurink
Ella and her chickens by Steven Johnson, done plein-air style from a photograph of my grandmother
Barn by Hendrika "Hattie" Scholten
Roadside landscape by Lucian Lupinski