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I’m doing an urban project on selected stretches of streets in Madison.

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Their BICYCLES sign is a prominent feature on the side of the brick building.

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https://www.appliquecafeblog.com/recommendations/ The Machinery Row Building  is at the intersection of Blair and Williamson Streets. Williamson is known as Willy Street by all the locals.) East Wilson disappears and Willy Street appears. The row of buildings was designed by the architectural firm of Conover and Porter from Madison. As was typical of many commercial buildings at the time, the structures were designed in a commercial Romanesque Revival Style. The firm dissolved shortly after the first sections of Machinery Row were built. Lew F. Porter then supervised the remaining work on the building.

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Coneflowers are a symbol of strength — and the purple coneflower is also a potent healing.

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The bright orange cone heads contrasting with the bright to pale pinks and purples are one of the prettiest natural contrasts in the prairie garden.

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Order Klonopin Online From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Focusing on the beauty I find in the gardens has become a life-enhancing gift.  How can one’s spirits not soar, one’s mood not lift, surrounded by the many colors, textures, the sensory experiences that make one feel fully alive.
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A Bit of Enchantment

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I do not understand how anyone can live without one small piece of enchantment to turn to.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Another visit to the botanical gardens, another morning with time enough to notice textures, patterns, colors. The sunlight’s reflection on the large leaf of the elephant ear plant, the sun still strong, still a summer’s sun although its strength wanes each day as we add a few night minutes onto out 24 hour allotment, subtract a few light minutes.

I sat on one of the many benches in the gardens, closed my eyes, and noticed the many ways I am aware of the sun without opening my eyes. Warm on my arms, warm enough to cause me to break into a sweat under my hat band, a glowing feeling, a feeling of well-being. All is right my my tiny garden world when the sun shines.

I found a small piece of enchantment today in the garden.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Loving the gardens these days, prime garden time in Wisconsin,  and the gardens bring out so many beauties.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  ~ Marcel Proust

Sunday morning was one of those delicious Wisconsin mornings. So fresh and sunny, a gentle breeze, a few puffy clouds drifting along. It was the kind of morning that begs for adventure. Well,  perhaps not a big adventure, but surely a trip across town to visit the local botanical gardens.

I’ve spent many hours at the Olbrich Botanical Garden on Madison’s east side – one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States. I thought the above quote was appropriate for this garden visit, because I took my first 85 photographs within 20 feet of the entrance to the outdoor gardens.

One more reminder that one does not need to look hard or far to find a great photographic subject.

It took over an hour for me to move beyond the front entrance and these entrancing hosta. The sun, still quite low on the horizon, was shining brightly on the hosta foliage. Too bright for any photography without a diffuser, and I had left the diffuser in the car. Once I started poking around the plants, however, I discovered a delightful world of light under the hosta leaves. Oh, what a world of delight and lovely lighting and textures.

Many more photographs of hosta to come . . .

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is going great guns for gardens this week. Prime garden time in Wisconsin and the gardens are full of treasures. So much beauty!