Shadow Play on the Patio

Favorite Stop for Coffee - Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Shadows on the Patio ©2013 Bo Mackison

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven’t had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ~ Martha Beck

Now that I’ve completed the initial phase of my photo project on my Barriers series, I’ve returned to walking the desert trails. One of my favorite stops is the coffee shop at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. This desert discovery place in the midst of the Tucson Mountains, one of my favorite destinations for hiking, wandering, or just setting up my day office at a picnic site for hours of art, journal writing and photography. It’s also a grand way to either start or end my day – complimentary coffee or iced tea for members!

I can never sit on the patio overlooking the desert exhibits without getting at least temporarily distracted by the light and shadow contrasts from the slatted beams of the ramada offering protection from the elements.

And I always appreciate a good cup of coffee or a prickly pear iced tea as I consider the play of light and shadow. Oh, yes I do!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. And she always enjoys a good shadow photo opportunity!

Rain Sweeping

Rain Sweeping

Rain Sweeping © 2012 Bo Mackison

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another rainy day. Rain came down so fast, i went out on the patio with the broom to sweep away the standing water – send it into the flower beds and the grass.

While I was sweeping away the water, making big splashes and laughing, I noticed the broom which has been a fixture in the garage and porch for nearly a dozen years. It is a Shaker hand-made broom that we bought on a vacation to the Canterbury Shaker Settlement in Canterbury, New Hampshire in the summer of 2000.

I fell in love with this broom. Yes, it is possible to love a broom, especially one so beautifully crafted. Notice the weaving where the straw is attached to the handle. And after years of hard use, the broom shows its age, but it may just be around for another dozen years.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC.Usually Bo photographs landscapes or botanicals. But today she photographed her beautiful broom.