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‘Blue Beauty’ Water Lily

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Buy Carisoprodol Online The ‘Blue Beauty’ Water Lily is one of the more popular water lilies. It is a hybrid developed in 1896 when hybrid studies were just being undertaken. Originally called ‘Nymphaea pulcherrima’, a pseudo-Latin name translated as “beautiful water-lily,” its name was changed to ‘Blue Beauty’ in the 1930s.

https://www.52editions.com/complaints/ I love the bluish-lilac color, but even more I love the blue-gray, two-toned shadows of the two lilies. This is one of those photographs where I think the shadow as interesting as the subject. The lilies that stand above the water — this one grows 6″ to 8″ above the surface of the pond — seem to cast rather impressionistic, moody shadows on the barely rippling pond surface.

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(One Too Many) Adventures at the Chicago Botanic Gardens Art Festival

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Lorazepam Purchase Online Sherpa and I spent the weekend in Chicago. I exhibited my Seeded Earth Photography at the Chicago Botanic Gardens Art Festival. It was a rather crazy, mixed up weekend.

enter site First we had to keep switching schedules to adapt to work schedules and show timetables. When Sherpa had a conflict on Thursday which was set-up day, my son agreed to drive me, the trailer and the art set up to Chicago on Wednesday evening. That worked out well. We had an entire evening to catch up on a few years worth of conversations.

https://thelonelycreative.com/shop-faqs/ Thursday set up went well. We set up the booth, strolled a bit through the Botanic Gardens, had a quick lunch, and Jeff was back on his way to Madison by 3 in the afternoon. Sherpa arrived later that evening to take over the assistant’s duties.

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https://drbatayneh.com/post-operation/ We had a couple of hours of set up to do before the show began. As Sherpa and I were getting the awnings of the booth unrolled, I stepped backwards, tripped over another artist’s gear, and hit my head hard on a ladder laying in the grass. I’ll sum up the next 24 hours quickly–ambulance, ER, CAT scan, hospital admission for 24 hours’ observation for post-concussion syndrome.

https://www.parolacce.org/vaffanculo/ Sherpa went back to the festival where employees of Amdur Productions and so many wonderful artists near my booth pitched in and set up my photography display and helped Sherpa when he needed a second pair of hands. When I was discharged from the hospital at noon on Saturday, complication-free, I went to the show and found everything in good shape. And so the rest of the show proceeded smoothly.

enter I want to note that I started out on this art show path with little idea of how things were going to work out. There were lots of unanswered questions, lots of risk taking, and a few sleepless nights. Sherpa and I are both lucky, because we discovered we love doing art shows. But the best benefit of being on the art fair circuit was one I had not expected.

https://hymnsandhome.com/thrifting-vintage/ It was meeting and becoming friends with the amazing artists at the various shows. It was getting to know the people who capably run the shows and handle emergencies in stride.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. This weekend she very briefly considered whether the life of an artist was the life for her. She answered with a resounding YES – what other life could be so fulfilling and meaningful.

Weekend Show – Seeded Earth Studio at Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival

Tall Stem Poppy

Tall Stem Poppy © 2011 Bo Mackison

Here is one more photo of this gorgeously pink poppy, my favorite flower from this spring.  The soft pink colors combined with a hint of purple, and the bonus raindrops, made this a flower any botanical photographer would love to study and photograph. And I did both.

This weekend I will be at the 1st Annual Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival in Glencoe, Illinois, an art show organized by Amdur Productions of Highland Park in association with the Botanic Garden. This photograph will be one of the many flower and garden photos in the Seeded Earth Studio booth.

I can think of no better place to display my garden photo gallery than in this magnificent botanical garden.

The art fair will be held on the Esplanade from Friday July 1 through Sunday July 3 — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The 80 artists in the Chicago Botanic Garden Art Fair will exhibit art that is in some way related to a botanical theme. This promises to be a one of a kind summer art fair.

If you visit the art festival, please come visit my booth, #24. I will be presenting a booth chat about photography at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 2. Hope to see you there.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is looking forward to this weekend’s art fair set in the midst of the Chicago Botanic Gardens–a tiny piece of heaven on earth.

‘Loraine Sunshine’

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‘Loraine Sunshine’ False Sunflower © 2011 Bo Mackison

I always thought this flower in my garden was a sunflower. Now I find out, while doing a bit of research for blog writing, that it is not a true sunflower, but a false sunflower. It is a good thing a flower’s beauty is not in its name, but in its looks. Botanically speaking, a sunflower has green leaves, while this flower has green and white variegated leaves. Hence the false label.

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Variegated © 2011 Bo Mackison

It is a ‘Loraine Sunshine’ heliopsis and when I was in the nursery picking out replacement stock for a few spaces in my garden, one of the reasons I chose this flower was because of its deep yellow color. A second reason was because of its unusual foliage.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is enjoying the backyard garden this year, especially since plentiful rains are keeping everything green and growing.

A Cuppa with a Friend

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A Cuppa with a Friend © 2011 Bo Mackison

Marcie Scudder and I have been trading comments back and forth on our photography blogs for…well, I’ll go look it up.

Thirty seconds of research in the WordPress stats and I discover that Marcie wrote her first comment on my Seeded Earth blog on July 14, 2008. And in slightly less than three years, she has written 548 comments on this blog. When Marcie drops in to visit Seeded Earth, I feel like an old friend is stopping by. When I visit Marcie’s blog, Daily Practice, I feel as if I am about to rap on her window and shout “hello-o-o-o”, while waiting for my invitation to join her for a cup of tea (or maybe a glass of iced tea in this weather.)

In the last few years, we’ve discovered that while Marcie lives on the East Coast and I live in the Midwest, we still have a lot in common. We were both born in the same decade – the nifty fifties, though I won’t say any more than that! We each have three children, and until a few months ago, all six of our offspring were in that twenty-something category.

I love architecture and often take photographs of historic buildings; Marcie is an architect and works with the details of design. We both love to write, exploring our worlds with thought-provoking perspectives. We both appreciate the small things in life.

And we are both photographers. We both have a goal of posting a daily photograph on our respective blogs, though Marcie is a bit more successful in this endeavor. But photography plays an important and daily part in both of our lives.

As Marcie says on her blog, one day she realized she was missing out on the journey, so focused was she on reaching her destination.  So she “picked up my camera anew and began what quickly became a daily exercise in recording the world as I view it through my camera lens. The ‘practice’, as I have come to know it, is about finding the new and extraordinary in the everyday ordinary. . . It is a reminder that there is hidden magic in the details, if we actually stop and to look and to see.”

Marcie has a feature on her blog called the Saturday Salon, and once a month she interviews another photographer. This month, I am privileged to be the photographer featured on Saturday Salon. I do hope you will stop by and read what the two of us chatted about.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She has discovered that photography is about more than just photographs — it is about other photographers, too.

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