Changing Seasons

Turning Leaves

https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/home/ Changing Leaves © 2011 Bo Mackison

go to link Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu

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

go to site 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://www.52editions.com/education/ 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.

https://anthonynewmancamps.com/concussion-in-sports/ How many will still be on this branch when autumn officially begins?

Hydrocodone Purchase Online  

The Red Stem

Red Stem

Buy Lyrica Without Prescription Red Stem © 2011 Bo Mackison

https://www.wjsmithconstruction.com/deck-building/ 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.

https://www.52editions.com/introduction/ 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.

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

Sunlit Leaf

Sunlit Leaf

Sunlit Leaf © 2011 Bo Mackison

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

Late Summer Zinnia © 2011 Bo Mackison

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.

——————–

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.

Fern, Unfurling

New Growth

Fern, Unfurling © 2011 Bo Mackison

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose your holy curiosity.  ~ Albert Einstein

Today is a quiet day, so instead of writing, I offer this photograph for your enjoyment.

How deeply can you dive into this unfurling fern’s mysteries?

Today is a thinking-about-things day. Big things, little things, in-between things.