I Love Garden Centers! © 2010 Bo Mackison

There are so many bright, colorful things to photograph in garden centers in spring in Wisconsin. Not only the flowers, but the containers. These pink beauties are called Common Thrift. Not the prettiest of names, but they sure add a bright spot of color.

Blue Pottery

I am excited to announce that I’ve just launched a new monthly feature called Memoir Space. It is published at The Calm Space, an online magazine which, according to founder and editor Karen Wallace, “is an online magazine published weekly with a monthly theme – written by a team of amazing, real-life women who are living their passion with a purpose and a focus…we write in our own unique voices, and tell it like it is.”

Memoir Space will present a monthly multimedia project that will inspire you to create/write/photograph your memoir in fun, easy, and interesting bits. I so hope you’ll be inspired to not only try this month’s project, but join me each month. We will be writing unique exercises to flesh out your memories, shoot a few photography projects (any experience with any camera – cell phone camera, point and shoot, digital SLR is fine) and explore other multimedia ideas in the quest to “collect your memoir”.

Please check out the first installment, The Memories of Your Life, An Introduction to Writing Your Memoirs. And hey, why not say hi while you are visiting.

(As for the above photograph, these blue containers were spread out on the ground in front of a shop in Tubac, Arizona. I loved the deep blue color, and the tumbled arrangement, and  so I had to take a few photos.)