‘49 Was A Great Year

I am a ‘geezer who has abandoned several tumblr blogs that I have outgrown rather than changing them because each has had its place and I’m moving forward not staying in one place. I avoid posting anything that looks to me like AI. And I avoid blogs that post it. Sideblogs: http://www.tumblr.com/49er-quotes

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At first glance, it looks like something no animal could have made: a huge corkscrew locked inside the Nebraska earth.

When geologists first uncovered these strange spirals, nobody knew what they were.

The name they gave them says everything:

Daimonelix, the Devil's Corkscrew.

The real answer was almost as strange. These were burrows made by an extinct, dry-land beaver called Palaeocastor. It did not build a lodge by a river. It dug its home downward in a spiral that still looks wrong to the eye.

Imagine finding the remains of an animal's home and realising it has been sitting beneath the prairie for millions of years.

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Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus), mating, family Dicroglossidae, India

In the breeding season, the males turn bright yellow.

photographs by Gursewak Singh

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The world's first Dairy Queen is being revived to be a Route 66 landmark in Joliet.

https://wgntv.com/news/joliet/worlds-first-dairy-queen-to-be-revived-as-route-66-landmark-in-joliet/

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I remember someone saying “when I die, plant catnip on my grave. I want to be visited by lots and lots of cats” and that changes the way I see my own future death entirely

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Depression awareness - look closer.

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