Seedhead in Sunlight

Seedhead in Sunlight

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https://www.beyondagencyprofits.com/loom-videos/ Wabi Sabi is a aesthetic concept intimately related to Japan and Zen Buddhism. However, it is not a “style of art” but rather a way of perceiving things, a very refined culture of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete that expresses itself in great freedom of form, sublime colors, and a simplicity.

Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription Things of wabi-sabi nature are understated and unassuming, yet they do have presence and quiet authority and describe the transience and solitude of existence, an existential loneliness and tender sadness, in short: the essence of Zen.

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source link The seed head of the Pasque flower is one of the earlier seed heads in the garden, appearing in June and July. It usually has tinges of green and purple in its thready fibers, but this seed head, side lit in the sunlight, highlighted the subtle coloring of natural light. This plant, at this time of year when it has long-lost its velvety, deep purple petals, seems to me to be the essence of wabi-sabi. Imperfect. Impermanent. Freedom of form. Sublime colors. Simplicity. Yet with a presence that truly is an example of the transience and solitude of existence.

follow url Photographed at the Allen Centennial Garden, a horticultural studies garden on the urban campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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Zinnia’s Crown of Yellow

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https://geneticsandfertility.com/services/ A true summer flower, the zinnia, dressed in the spectrum of hot colors – bright yellow and deep orange. I have always loved the crown effect in the center of the flower, the yellow ring much like a crown. A queen of a flower!

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Narrowleaf Firethorn Bonsai

Narrowleaf Firethorn Bonsai

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watch This Narrowleaf Firethorn Bonsai was one of the more unusual specimens in the courtyard exhibit at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The roots of the Firethorn have been carefully trained to grow around a large rock.

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Satsuki Azalea Bonsai

Order Soma Online The art of Bonsai originated in Asia many centuries ago. The literal translation of bonsai is plantings in tray, from bon, a tray or low-sided pot and sai, a planting. When the tree is planted, it is intentionally placed in the dish to form a harmonious unit where the shape, texture and color of the tree compliments the container. The bonsai is shaped, twig by twig, into an aesthetic image. This shaping requires constant pruning and trimming.

This bonsai was in full bloom when photographed at the Chicago Botanic Garden in early July. Approximately 15 inches tall, the blossoms nearly hide the tree’s foliage.

The Botanic Garden has a world-famous collection of over 200 bonsai, all professionally trimmed and pruned by horticulturists. The trees are placed in the outside courtyard exhibit when they are at their peak. For more information on the Botanic Garden’s bonsai collection, the Gardens website has a page devoted exclusively to the bonsai.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is back in the suburbs of Chicago this weekend, exhibiting her photography at the Buffalo Grove Invitational Art Fair.

 

Twisted Pomegranate Bonsai

Twisted Pomegranate Bonsai

Twisted Pomegranate Bonsai © 2011 Bo Mackison

When I was at the Chicago Botanic Gardens in early July, I spent the early morning shooting some of the bonsai trees in the Bonsai Garden in the Frances Searle Courtyard. I do not know much about these small, pruned trees, only that this one had just been freshly watered by the gardener and that the morning light was casting a soft sidelight.

I’ve traveled the Midwest for the last five weekends, so I have posted to my blog more sporadically than usual. One more art fair this weekend (Buffalo Grove in suburban Chicago) and then I have a two week-end break with much catching up to do.

I have a several more photographs of bonsai to post and so I will do the proper research and tell you all about the lovely bonsai trees in the next few posts. In the meantime, I will enjoy this foot high twisted pomegranate, knowing nothing about it, except how wonderful its twists are to admire.

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