Miss Piggy is now a "calendar girl."

Entitled "A Pig for All Seasons," the 2005 calendar is a fund-raising porker, uh, project, of the Boothbay Civic Association (BCA).

It features color photographs of the fashionably attired Ms. Pig in familiar spots around the region, with a pithy piggy quotation for each month.

For example, "Miss January" is bundled up in furs and is pictured, through the miracle of modern photographic design, by the town pier in the Harbor with seasmoke rising. "How about, This little piggy went to Florida!'" she says.

"Miss September," dressed in her back-to-school outfit and backpack, comments to a team of rushing Seahawk football players, "I'll go back to school if you'll stop calling the football a pigskin!"

Miss Piggy is the carved wooden pig statue on Route 27 owned by Chet and Joan Rittall, founding members of the BCA. Chetley, boatbuilder and woodworker, carved Piggy in the early 1980s. Her first job was as a waitress holding trays of hors d'oeuvres. Later, after the Rittalls moved from Boothbay Harbor to a farm in Boothbay, she was assigned to hold their mailbox in a highly visible place on the state highway.

She has become not only a loony landmark but also an icon of fashion and an object of fan mail, some of which is included in the calendar. Commuters and tourists enjoy seeing her costumes which change frequently according to the season, the weather, holidays and local events such as high school graduation or sports playoffs. Piggy has become so humanized, in fact, that some have claimed indecency whenever she has no clothes on.

The idea for a Miss Piggy calendar came about, say Joan Rittall and neighbor Alice Larrabee, because so many people stop to take pictures of her. She's famous, they say; even tour buses pull over, and delivery truck drivers from around New England all know her.

The calendar photos of Miss Piggy are by Alice Larrabee, the statue's wardrobe manager who collects clothing, wigs, hats and various accessories, and dresses her up. Larrabee sews or staples the fashions to fit, and to stay, and she responds to those who call and say, "Miss Piggy is cold - she needs a coat!"

The background photos for the calendar are by Steve Rubicam, Robert Mitchell and by Boothbay Register photographers Kevin Burnham and John Edwards.

Putting them together was Dana Burns-Pizer who generously donated the graphic design work. She is a freelance illustrator and designer who works from her office in Cape Elizabeth. Dana's husband Richard Pizer is the general manager of Sprucewold Lodge in Boothbay Harbor.

Printed by Lincoln County Publishing, the calendar was hot off the presses just in time for the BCA's major fund-raising event of the year, its July 4th fair on the Boothbay Common, where it was for sale.

In addition to listing the local tides, the calendar mentions the BCA's various accomplishments, including the Boothbay Town Office, the clock cupola, the bandstand on the Common, and the Memorial Park and armillary sphere at the Center.

This unique calendar, which makes a swinederful gift, is available for $10 each at Sherman's Bookstore and at Salt River Artisans Gallery, or by calling Joan Rittall, (207) 633-4250. It is also available by mail order; send check for $13.00 (to cover postage) to: Boothbay Civic Association, P.O. Box 81, Boothbay, ME 04537