Blackthorn

[litsnaps]

[blackthornflower]

"Suddenly I understood what all the fuss over kissing a girl was about."

[zoeflake]

Island Sheep by Kathleen Buchanan

[iamjapanese]

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham（British, 1912-2004）

Glacier Face 1976 oil, pen and ink on board 10 x 7 in. via more

[robert-hadley]

Shelter from the Storm, Loch Stack, Sutherland, Scotland, by Dougie Cunningham

[heaveninawildflower]

'Autumn at Oirase' (1933) by Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883–1957).

Woodblock print.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[blackthornflower]

"In her room, she found Piñon standing near a window with his nose to the floor, engaged in his new hobby of resuscitating half dead bees. He did this by blowing hard out of his nose, directly onto their still bodies. Sometimes he succeeded in bringing them back to life for a few wing beats. Then they stopped moving forever.

"Dead and gone, Piñon," Greta said, "Go to bed, baby."

Piñon jumped onto the bed and mounted his girlfriend, a stuffed alligator."

[historicalbookimages]

🦭 The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror. v.1. London, E. W. Janson, 1844-1875.

[blackthornflower]

"We are often more tender to the dead than to the living, though it is the living who need our tenderness most."

[blackthornflower]

"When I hear about Schrödingers cat, I reach for my gun."

Stephen Hawking, quoted in The Quark and the Jaguar. Adventures in the simple and complex.

[inspirationselfhelp]

East Lothian, South East of Scotland 

[whiskyandwonder]

[blackthornflower]

Maggie Smith, 1934 - 2024

[whereifindsanity]

[blackthornflower]

"I asked my boys to search and sort flints in the spoil heap by the mine. They had high hopes of finding implements, a broken arrow head at least. All they found, in fact, was the skeletal lower arm of a child. Marks on the hinge joint of the ulna suggested that it had been removed by surgery of some kind. We sent the bones across to Carter for some tests - and then we entertained ourselves that night, in the darkness of our tents, inventing reasons why the arm was there, and what the fate had been of that child's other bones."

[blackthornflower]

"I do not believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem."

[wehadfacesthen]

Ingrid Bergman, c.1944