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Hello! I take photos, bake cakes and have feelings about cartography. Awkward conversation available here.

[thenatsdorf]

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Stretchy yawn.

[mythologyofblue]

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

-Jack Gilbert, “Failing and Flying” from Refusing Heaven

[olgainoue]

cyanometer  for measuring the  blueness of the sky

1789

[walzerjahrhundert]

Beatrix Potter, daffodils, ca 1900 (?)

[love]

by Eduardo Kobra 

[artfortheages]

Andrew Wyeth “Wind from the Sea”, 1947 tempera on hardboard

[bucketsofsnow]

[nessa007]

[bucketsofsnow]

13 Outlines of Various Countries - Funny Maps From The 1860s - Flashbak

Geographical fun: being humourous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines is a 1860s book compiled by “Aleph”, nom de plume of London surgeon and educator William Harvey. The young lady who is responsible for these Sketches is now in her fifteenth year, and her first idea of Map Drawing is traceable to … Continue reading "13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s"

[idavidbeattie]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

David Beattie, In the Winter, 2017

[pleatedjeans]

[clown-gf]

THIS IS IT. IVE FOUND THE FUNNIEST THING ON THIS PLANET.

[languagenerds-archive]

my mom found this antique english-german dictionary and phrase book and like…..I guess this was the kind of stuff you’d’ve needed to now how to say if you went to Germany in 1893?

[jkottke]

Up and Above, a gorgeous drone video of Romania

On New Year’s Eve, Bogdan Teodorescu uploaded a video of drone footage he shot of different locations around Romania over the course of 2017. Here is last year’s video:

What a beautiful country…I want to go to there.

[bucketsofsnow]

Faro & Tavira

[bucketsofsnow]

Azulejos in the Algarve

[yesdarlingido]

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.

Barbara Brown Taylor (via llleighsmith)

[gurafiku]

Japanese Illustration: JR Kyushu. Tatsuro Kiuchi. 2015