"CALENDAR GIRLS,” BIG TIMBER VERSION: Gwen Petersen, cowboy poet and long-time attendee at Wyoming Writers, Inc., conferences, has come up with a unique way to get attention and raise funds for a new arts center in Big Timber, Mont. She is one of the “wild women” behind the 2006 calendar I See By Your Outfit: A Toast to all Wild Women. Riverbend Publishing describes it this way: "This over-the-top, over-sized calendar presents real western women in real western scenes, but like nothing you've ever seen. These ridin' and ropin' ladies put ‘The Calendar Girls’ of Rylstone to shame, and all for a good cause: a Creative Arts and Visual Center in Big Timber, Montana. The photos are more fun than naughty, and each month features original humorous verses by the queen of western poetry, Gwen Petersen, author of Ranch Woman's Manual and one of the presenters from the first Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 1986.”

AND WHAT ABOUT “CALENDAR BOYS?”: Rumors are circulating about a risque new 2006 calendar in Casper that features, among others, an unclothed Mike Sullivan (you may remember him as WYO governor way back when) and a strategically placed canoe. Any truth to these rumors? Sounds like the perfect Christmas gift.

- posted by Michael Shay @ 9:55 AM