Every single thing
Changes and is changing
Always in this world.
Yet with the same light
The moon goes on shining.
~ Saigyo
It is interesting to compare this zinnia with the same variety of orange zinnia photographed at the end of July when its petals were upright and the center had not yet developed. The last two nights Madison flirted with temperatures near 32˚ so perhaps our first near-frost of near-Autumn will have touched these flowers, and they will have changed even more.
And just as flowers and all of nature continually change, we too experience constant change. It isn’t true that the only things in life that are certainties are taxes and death (source: Benjamin Franklin.)
Change is a certainty, too.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She will be heading to Highwood Last Call Art Fair in Highwood, Illinois (north Chicago suburb) later this afternoon. Most artists, me included, are featuring close outs and special discounts to mark the end of the season.






