‘Loraine Sunshine’

'Loraine Sunshine' False Sunflower

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follow site 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.

'Loraine Sunshine' Variegated Foliage

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Buy Soma Overnight 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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A Cuppa with a Friend

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https://www.52editions.com/introduction/ Marcie Scudder and I have been trading comments back and forth on our photography blogs for…well, I’ll go look it up.

source site 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.)

https://geneticsandfertility.com/services/ivf/ 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.

Purchase Xanax Without Prescription 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.

Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription 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.

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https://www.appliquecafeblog.com/hoop-towels/ 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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Robinson & Bours House in Milwaukee

Robinson-Bours House and Garden

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https://hymnsandhome.com/summer/ One of the homes featured on the Wright & Like Tour 2011 in Milwaukee was the Dr. T. Robinson & Emma Bours House designed by once Wright associate Russell Barr Williamson. The home was constructed in 1921-22 and is Williamson’s best example of the classic Prairie-style architecture. The home has been carefully preserved and maintained, and remains true to Williamson’s design except for the two enclosed porches and bathrooms and kitchen remodeling projects.

source site Some of its more notable Prairie style features are the low-pitched terra-cotta roof, the strong horizontal lines and overhanging eaves. Further decorative details include long horizontal brickwork, the brick pilasters, cast planters, and stained glass windows set on concrete lintels.

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The garden, designed and carefully tended by the current owners, complements the exterior of the home. The pink poppies and pink/yellow lupine contrasted beautifully with blue and purple iris. What a fantastic display of color!

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Wright-Like Red Garden Fence © 2011 Bo Mackison

The garden is partially surrounded by this handsome red wrought iron fence, designed by Williamson, but so much like the wrought iron work Wright often designed. Even the color — Cherokee red — is a Wright favorite.

Williamson worked with Wright from 1912-1918 and managed his Chicago office. When Wright was in Japan, Williamson supervised the construction and completion of many of Wright’s buildings in the Milwaukee area.

Classic Prairie-style. A handsome house, inside and out.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC.  She is known for her botanical photography, but Prairie-style architecture is another of her favorite subjects.

 

Almost Daisies

Almost Daisy Time

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The garden is ready to explode with flowers.

We’ve had the rain. Now we just need a few hours of sunshine to get these flowers to pop! The coreopsis, my ‘Loraine sunshine’ plants which are called false sunflowers because they have variegated leaves, the wild geranium, and the Shasta daisies — all are on the verge of blooming.

My garden will be transformed from a garden of few flowers — a couple of iris, the blanket flowers, and a few coral bells the rabbits haven’t yet found — to a flower riot of yellows, whites, and purples.

This is the time of year when I love to take a break from my computer in mid-afternoon, pull my Adirondack chair under the shade of the maple tree, grab a good book and a glass of iced tea, and “set for a spell” as my grandma used to say.

Summer heaven!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. When she is not admiring her flower garden, she is photographing the flowers and getting ready for the Spring Green Art Fair this weekend in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Hello, Summer!

This Poppy Pops

Eye-Popping Poppy © 2011 Bo Mackison

Since poppies are usually in full bloom in Wisconsin during the middle part of June, they are typically available for a Summer Solstice photograph. And what flower could be a better way to say welcome to the hot summer than this hot, summer-y flower?

On this first day of summer (although in my mind, I think summer begins on June first) this is how my micro-world looks and feels:

  • There’s a threat of thunderstorms, but I see lots of blue skies and white clouds. There are a few storm clouds far in the western sky.
  • It’s humid (85%) and on the warm side. 75˚F at 10 a.m. It’s predicted to get in the low to mid 80s later today.
  • The air has that smell of a storm brewing.
  • There’s a breeze to keep the house (and me) comfortable – almost. It’s a bit sticky and I keep my glass of ice water nearby. I have fans on, trying to postpone turning on the air conditioning if I can. I prefer to have the windows open when possible.
  • The upper branches of the ash tree outside my studio window are gently swaying, the leaves are fluttering.
  • A gang of crows just flew through my yard, chasing a smaller bird. The crows seem to be especially vicious this year, and I wonder why. A couple of weeks ago I saw a gang of them attack an owl in the middle of the day. The owl would fly and try to hide in a tree. The crows would follow, heckling and cawing and flapping their wings, darting at its target. Eventually the owl would take off again, only to be followed by a dozen angry crows. They repeated this until they were out of sight, so I never knew if the owl managed to escape.
  • There is fluff from the cottonwood dancing in the air. Lots of fluff. Lots and lots of fluff. I just noticed it this morning.
  • The red osier dogwood bushes are blooming–tiny clusters of deep purple florets cover the shiny foliage.
  • There are a lots of blossoms and several one-inch diameter green tomatoes in my garden. And blossoms and the tiniest beginnings on the green peppers. But only two yellow blossoms on the zucchini – I planted the zucchini late.
  • The grass needs cutting. With the rain we’ve had, it could be cut every 5 days, but that never happens.
  • Two pairs of cardinals are hanging around for the summer–one pair is in the ash tree on the west side of the house, the other pair is in the fir on the southeast side. They seem to stay in their own territories, except when visiting the feeders. Nuthatches, chickadees, yellow finches, sparrows, redpolls, and purple finches round out the birds that visit the feeders.
  • The columbine and coral bells have been in bloom for weeks, as have the flag iris and blanket flowers. The daisies and day lilies are just beginning to form buds so they will soon be flowering. The rabbits have eaten about half of the coral bell flower spikes. Gourmet garden rabbits!
  • The filbert tree died over the winter. Its curly branches are bare, but it is being a nurse tree for a young maple that is growing next to its trunk. The maple is already about two feet high.
  • The paper birch has the most wonderful bark this summer–layers and layers of curling, crinkly papers, patterned in many brown tones–almost as if it was steeped in tea by a painstakingly brilliant artist.

So that is what my world looks like on this Summer Solstice. It’s a vivid green world, highlighted with many bright colors.

What does your first day of summer look and feel like? I hope that, wherever you are, nature has given you many gifts to enjoy on this first day of summer!

Happy Summer Solstice!

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She loves the summer and fall seasons in Wisconsin, and is welcoming summer with a little celebration — farm picked strawberries with home made shortcakes for supper’s dessert.