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Sunday Series – Minimalist Summer

July 8, 2012 by 12 Comments
Cornfield in Iowa County, Wisconsin

Iowa County, Wisconsin © 2012 Bo Mackison

Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Stripes - Iowa County, Wisconsin

Stripes in Iowa County © 2012 Bo Mackison

Summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime. ~ From Porgy and Bess by Ira Gershwin

Queen Anne's Lace - Lost in Iowa County, Wisconsin

Queen Anne’s Lace © 2012 Bo Mackison

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.  ~ Author Unknown

Telephone Wires in Iowa County, Wisconsin

Telephone Wires © 2012 Bo Mackison

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
–  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Iowa County, Wisconsin

Horizon © 2012 Bo Mackison

In summer, the song sings itself. – William Carlos Williams

Beans, Corn, Sky -- Iowa County, Wisconsin

Beans, Corn, Sky © 2012 Bo Mackison

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.
~ Ray Davies

Converging Fields - Iowa County, Wisconsin

Converging Fields © 2012 Bo Mackison

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. ~ Gertrude Stein

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Bo takes photographs every day, even on days when the temperature is breaking all the heat records, and she finds beauty in the patterns of Wisconsin’s fields. Each Sunday, she shares a series of photographs and quotes she finds meaningful.

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About Bo Mackison

I'm a photographer, book-artist, traveler, naturalist, and creator of the Contemplative Creatives Journey, An Online Workshop and Community and Desert Wisdom Cards and Workshops. Though often not well known, I find the desert a welcoming place - a healing space. Its mysteries and gifts transformed me several years ago. Since that first encounter, I return again and again to fill my well in what most people think of as a desolate region. I'd love to share my desert discoveries and wisdom with you. Please subscribe to receive my five part mini email course The Gifts of the Desert. It's my gift to you.

Comments

  1. Susan Vial says
    July 4, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    love these pics

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  2. Gandalf says
    July 5, 2012 at 8:22 am

    Most definitely summer in your neck of the woods. I love the lines in the photos.

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    • Bo Mackison says
      July 7, 2012 at 7:35 pm

      I have been looking for “striped” fields in Wisconsin or Iowa or Illinois for years — but never found them at the right time or place. Finally! I love the lines too…

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  3. Frida says
    July 5, 2012 at 9:37 am

    Love the colors and lines in these pics.

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  4. Anita Bower says
    July 5, 2012 at 11:12 am

    An inspired series. I especially like the second image.

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    • Bo Mackison says
      July 7, 2012 at 7:37 pm

      It was a great series to shoot — even if I was walking farm roads when it was 105˚. I might go back when it’s a bit cooler, maybe a cloud or two. Just considering…

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  5. Montucky says
    July 6, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    I love those stripes! Especially with the lace!

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  6. Marcie says
    July 8, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    These are great! Love the simplicity..the composition..the lines and forms. Terrific!!!!

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  7. Joanne Keevers says
    July 10, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    So simple, yet so stunning, and the contrast in colours is incredible! You can see by the colours that it is summer. I do hope you are surviving the heat-wave. 🙂

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