Summer Color

Summer Color

Summer Color © 2011 Bo Mackison

It’s summer!

Wisconsin went from damp, gray spring to sunny and in the nineties in ten days. The temperature outside feels just as hot and steamy as the flower looks — as if the heat is rising from its inner surface.

Sure, it’s an out of focus trick of the camera, an extremely shallow depth of field, but this photograph seemed to sum up this steamy, summery day better than the other, perfectly focused photographs.

Isn’t that a rather ironic name for this flower – the blanket flower! Just the thought of a warm blanket makes me head to the kitchen for a glass of ice water.

I’m smiling, though, with that glass of ice water in my hand!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Yesterday she removed the flannel sheets and three blankets from her bed and replaced them with cooling bamboo sheets!