A Starry Earth Garden ©2012 Bo Mackison
So plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~ Anon
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Bo appreciates these smallest of starry green wonders in the midst of November gray.
Spikes and Yellow Fountain ©2012 Bo Mackison
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. ~Robert Brault
Some gardens are just meant for sitting. There are nooks and crannies, places to sit and watch what goes on in a garden. One of my favorite benches is tucked in a corner of the botanical gardens in Madison. I sit there, take a few photographs, listen to the fountain waters trickle over this yellow pottery container and drip upon the pebbles, and do a little people watching, too.
Inflatable Sculpture © 2012 Bo Mackison
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.
~ May Sarton
Placed in half hidden places in Olbrich Gardens, there are several new sculptures by Sturgeon Bay (Wisconsin) artist, Robert Anderson. He constructs large-scale sculptures out of metals and fills them with compressed air so that they expand.
Expanding Sculpture at Olbrich ©2012 Bo Mackison
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~ Leon B. Alberti
Every time I visit the gardens, the sculptures look a little different. I love this aluminum sculpture constructed of triangles. Half hidden in one of the natural gardens, it reminds me of a shiny serpent wending its way through tall grasses.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. Walking (and sitting) in the area gardens is one of Bo’s daily pleasures.
Patterns of Ferns © 2012 Bo Mackison
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~ Chinese Proverb
The ferns were in thick clumps in the conservatory at the New York Botanical Gardens, and offered plenty of opportunities to shoot them in different positions, layers, color combinations. This photo ended up as my favorite – very simple, a pair of ferns, side by side.
Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. The August Break encourages posting a photo, with or without a few words, not a long blog post. Perfect for the month of August.
Conservatory Dome © 2012 Bo Mackison
Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within. ~ Chinese Proverb
While exploring the Conservatory at the New York Botanical Gardens, I could hardly watch where I was stepping, so enchanted was I with the intricate design of the golden struts that supported the glass ceiling of the garden.
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is working through a backlog of photos taken this summer, while enjoying a bit of an August Break.
Week One : New York City.
Grasses ©2012 Bo Mackison
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Grasses II © 2012 Bo Mackison
The faster one goes, the more strain there is on the senses, the more they fail to take in, the more confusion they must tolerate or gloss over — and the longer it takes to bring the mind to a stop in the presence of anything. ~ Wendell Berry
Grasses III ©2012 Bo Mackison
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ~ Pearl S. Buck
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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. On Sundays, Bo shares a series of photographs and quotes she finds full of meaning and inspiration.
