Looks like Flurry of Purple Moths © 2008 Bo Mackison
Another visit to my stash of photographs from the Olbrich Botanical Garden.
There’s something about this row of orchid flowers that makes me feel like I’m in a flurry of purple moths.
Library Silhouette
January 22, 2010 by 9 Comments
The Place to be on a Winter’s Day
When it is wet and blowing snow outside, one of the best possible places to take shelter?
The neighborhood library.
Heart and Soul
January 20, 2010 by 10 Comments
Keyhole © 2010 Bo Mackison
It’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching, and rarely discovered — so many locks, not enough keys. ~ from Lock and Key by Sarah Dressen
Tree Walkers
January 19, 2010 by 14 Comments
Reflection in Sugar River
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
As a tree in December;
Resting, as a tree rests
After its leaves are gone,
Waiting no more for a rain at night
Nor for the red at dawn…
~~Sara Teasdale, from “The Tree”
Holding Hands – A Self-Portrait
January 18, 2010 by 10 Comments
Holding Hands with Nature
On the most basic of levels, this is a photograph of overlapping leaves that I took using a Lensbaby Composer. But when I saw the photograph, it seemed to be much more than a few leaves, it seemed to be another one of those self-portraits I occasionally take that aren’t an actual self-portrait, but a metaphorical portrait of self.
I look at this and see a photograph of holding hands. And I make the connection. I hold hands with nature when I am out in nature, sometimes taking photographs, sometimes hiking or camping, in lots of ways, in close relationship with the natural world.
