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Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, a Frank Lloyd Wright Design

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Get Ambien Prescription Online The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last architectural designs, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Designed by Wright in 1959 shortly before his death, the building was completed in 1961. The church is located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee just west of the city, though often the site is incorrectly given as Milwaukee.

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church with Rose Garden

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Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription We visited the church in June of this year, during the Wright and Like 2011 Tour, and were able to tour and photograph both the exterior and the interior of the building. All Greek Orthodox churches have domes, and this church is no exception. I think this dome is especially lovely, matched against the bright blue summer sun.

Detail of Dome of Annunciation Church

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get link The Church is beautifully done, both the exterior and the interior. The dome’s support is very modern in style and part of its weight rests on a concentric concrete form.

https://hymnsandhome.com/about/ In 1958, when the leaders of the church went to Spring Green to discuss the plans of the church with Wright, they were sent away several times without any definitive answers. Finally, in desperation, the men said they had to have information about the church or they would have to consider hiring a different architect. So the story goes, Mr. Wright looked at the assembly of church leaders before him, took his coffee cup and saucer, drank the last of the coffee, and then turned the cup upside down and placed it on the saucer.

source link “There,” Wright said. “There is your church. Your church will resemble this cup and saucer.”

follow url Evidently, that was enough of a plan for the men from the church, Wright went ahead with the commission, and the next time they met, Wright had plans drawn up that they could examine.

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Changing Seasons

Turning Leaves

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https://www.appliquecafeblog.com/applique-towel/ Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu

The more I look with intention, the more I see.

https://anthonynewmancamps.com/basketball-camps/ I watch as these leaves gradually change from green to orange and lose their lustrous coating. Each day I see more, even as the leaves wither and physically become less.They are no less beautiful.

https://gritandgracefamilyfarm.com/goats-for-sale/ When they grew in green clumps on the summer trees, I did not notice individual leaves. Now I can easily see them as individuals, notice the one with more orange than its neighbor, see another wobbling with the breeze as it loses its grip on the branch, and another has developed a fringe of dark brown.

Wabi-sabi leaves.

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The Red Stem

https://hymnsandhome.com/fall/ It is a good idea to be alone in the garden at dawn or dusk so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.   ~ James Douglas

When I study this photograph, it gives me a feeling of being supported.

source I see the red stem divide to support the two-lobed, dew soaked leaf. I see the leaf, waving in a steady breeze. I see the stem sway back and forth, absorbing nature’s forces. The leaf has such a magnificent support system in place.

A single leaf has adequate support.

Surely I also have a support system in place, perhaps invisible or unnoticed, but strong and flexible nonetheless.

Sunlit Leaf

Sunlit Leaf

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~ Henry David Thoreau

“An insect view of its plain.”

I love that description of my kind of macro-photography, written by none other than Thoreau. It seems I do explore the world of insects, though I am not in search of the creepy crawlers, only in search of the way the sun lights the back of a leaf, the way the ripple of the leaf adds dimension, the many shades of the yellows and oranges.

A magical world exists close to the earth.

Late Summer Zinnia

Orange Zinnia

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Every single thing
Changes and is changing
Always in this world.
Yet with the same light
The moon goes on shining.
~ Saigyo

It is interesting to compare this zinnia with the same variety of orange zinnia photographed at the end of July when its petals were upright and the center had not yet developed. The last two nights Madison flirted with temperatures near 32˚ so perhaps our first near-frost of near-Autumn will have touched these flowers, and they will have changed even more.

And just as flowers and all of nature continually change, we too experience constant change. It isn’t true that the only things in life that are certainties are taxes and death (source: Benjamin Franklin.)

Change is a certainty, too.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She will be heading to Highwood Last Call Art Fair in Highwood, Illinois (north Chicago suburb) later this afternoon. Most artists, me included, are featuring close outs and special discounts to mark the end of the season.