Prairie Walk – Searching the Earth

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Buy Lyrica Without Prescription Walking the remnant prairie. Again. It calls me at this time of year, a nearly barren place at first glance. But what photographer only takes a first glance? I go to find miracles.

click here I’m greeted by a raven, screeching at me, he watches my movement through the grasses. Screeches loudly from his safe perch on a high branch in the oak tree. “Squawk-away-away-away!” he calls to me. I listen for awhile, then think perhaps he’ll fly away soon, so I can listen to the prairie’s quiet.

https://hymnsandhome.com/fall/ I begin a conversation with Raven, he squawks, I talk. “Fine. Sit there then. And hold still. I’ll change my lens and take a proper portrait of you.” I suppose he’s not the portrait type. He takes wing before I can unzip my pack.

http://www.ztpackaging.com/art_requirements/ I return to my search on the earth, finding little pieces of miracles as I walk. I capture the wonder of it all in notes and line drawings in my field journal and in my photographs. I don’t want this special prairie walk to be relegated to the realm of my memories, mostly forgotten.

Exhibiting at the Holiday Art Fair

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click here So hop in your truck (or other suitable vehicle) and come on down to State Street to check out the Holiday Art Fair. It is held at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Overture Center for the Arts located on the  State Street mall in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

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Admission: $5 for adults; children under 12 free.

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The Way of November

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Austere Beauty – Seedheads in the Tallgrass Prairie

Austere Beauty © 2010 Bo Mackison

Taking photographs in the tallgrass prairie, I lose my way.

No path survives for long in the thicknesses of these stalks — Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Indiangrass.

Stop. Listen. Look.

Take a few deep breaths and I push my way west, through the dry grasses, towards the glare of the sun.

Prairie flowers, their skeletons, some are standing erect, waving in the late autumn breezes. Some are bent in an arc. Some stems poke sharply, broken in half by the unrelenting winds.

All are in waiting.

Waiting to take cover under the flurries of an early snow. Dried flowers linger on the tallest of stems, aglow, back lit by the setting sun.

Austere beauty.

Copper and Shell Fountain, Artist Elizabeth Eaton Burton

Copper and Shell Water Fountain in Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Lobby

Copper and Shell Fountain © 2010 Bo Mackison

One afternoon we spent a few enjoyable rainy hours wandering around the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone National Park.

We had tea in the lobby while a fire roared in the fireplace. Then we checked out the Map Room. I took a few photographs of some of the more interesting nooks and crannies including this tiny space, just big enough for a table and two chairs.

And finally we discovered this quaint, copper and shell water fountain.

It took me awhile to track down the information about this artistic creation. I picked up an information sheet about the fountain while we were at the hotel, but in the distraction of arriving home and then preparing for a long weekend trip to New York City, I filled a large pile of brochures and maps in a box to organize some of the clutter from the studio. And then I forgot where I put the box.

A couple of days ago, while in a studio-cleaning mood, I rediscovered the box, and found the story of the fountain. Again.

Since I had tried to find information on the internet, and found nothing, I will write more than usual. It seems the fountain is rather a mystery.

When Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel was renovated in 1993/94, the fountain was brought out of storage and restored in its original space. Evidently it had been removed from the hallway of the hotel and stored in a warehouse in Gardiner, Montana in the mid 1980’s during an earlier remodeling job.

Why it was removed is unknown. In fact, much of the history of the fountain, an Arts and Crafts style fountain with a koi fish design, is unknown. Research in the Yellowstone archives gives no details regarding when the fountain was first installed in the (1937) hotel lobby or why or when the fountain was first obtained by Yellowstone.

The fountain was crafted by metal smith and artist Elizabeth Eaton Burton, a Santa Barbara, Californian.

She worked extensively with metals in the Arts and Crafts style in the early 1900s. It is estimated that the fountain was made circa 1910. The fountain is signed by the artist in her distinctive mark, an oval incorporating a central “B” surrounded by a rounded “E” to the left and a reversed rounded “E” to the right, making up the monogram “EBE”.

The spigot of the fountain was originally a thin copper tube out of which water continually flowed. An on/off switch was added during the re-installation in 1993/4 and the edge of the shell was smoothed to repair damage. Otherwise, the fountain is as it was originally designed.

The fountain has lovely detailing and is truly a work of art. It’s rather amazing that so little is known about it, but we celebrated our finding of such a hidden treasure by having a drink of cold water from the re-fashioned spout of Burton’s copper fountain.

(Some of this information was originally compiled by Randy Ingersoll, Music Coordinator for Xanterra Parks and Resorts, September, 2010, and provided to the public in a written handout distributed in the lobby of Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.)