"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Not today Justin

Product Placement
RMH

pixel skylines
cherry valley forever
Jules of Nature
$LAYYYTER
styofa doing anything
No title available
art blog(derogatory)
ojovivo

blake kathryn

@theartofmadeline
Xuebing Du

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Acquired Stardust
Game of Thrones Daily
occasionally subtle
seen from Poland

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Canada

seen from United States
seen from Israel
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from South Africa
seen from United States

seen from Sweden
seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
@claybefree
🏁🏁🏁 So a quick update- Whiteboy should be available to purchase off Amazon and other online places by the middle of the week. if you give me a little while, I'll have a box worth of copies and will be able to mail you a signed copy. 🏁🏁🏁
This past Saturday was a glorious late spring day for a hike in the Allegheny Mountains: balmy, sunny, and low humidity. Timing was perfect. Spruce Mountain is one of the best places in Appalachia to view roseshell azalea (Rhododendron prinophyllum) when it blooms in late May through early June; something about the high elevation and rocky slopes really sets it off. But there are many other late spring treasures to admire also . . .
From top: trailing white monkshood (Aconitum reclinatum); Canada violet (Viola canadensis); woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca); Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense); fringed bleeding heart (Dicentra eximia); golden ragwort (Packera aurea); minniebush (Rhododendron pilosum); pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule); bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis); bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), an adorable dwarf dogwood; narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium), which is not a grass but a very beautiful mounding iris; false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum); and one of my all-time favorite mountain plants, cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum), a photo-toxic beauty much prized by Native Americans for its edible young shoots. And if you don't dig the flora, then you can admire the endless vistas east and west . . .
-Ferdinand Leeke
La Tène Copper Crown & Its Owner, C. 250-150 BC
From Mill Hill, Grave 112, Deal, Kent, England. Copper alloy crown found in situ still on it’s owner’s skull. More…
Eels Song | The Mighty Boosh | BBC Studios
WITH ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE!!!!
1981 Enesco Garfield “Compute This Sucker” Figurine
Stanley Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey
happy birthday and happy bookday!!
Thank you, Friend!!!
We have a cover, people
Just got a text from my buddy/ publisher Jay - Whiteboy has been sent to the printer. I started writing this book in 2014, I believe.
Very Large Bearings being Produced, amazing
@bisexual-engineer-enby
SLEWING BEARINGS!!!! That's awesome! I love seeing the forging and then the machining. Full process!
ugh. where am i. i need to get my bearings. *starts doing this*
Until they started touching them with their hands I massively underestimated the size of these things
Never play Operation with that forklift driver. Damn.
Dave Brandt was so much more than a meme. He partnered with universities to experiment with and expand soil conservation and cover crop techniques, worked to educate other farmers through worldwide conventions and direct mentorship, founded the Soil Health Academy, and was called the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of soil health" by the chief of the USDA's conservation department.
There is no healthy planet without healthy ag practices, and this guy was a legend.
The A-horizon on his farm was 4 feet deep
You do not understand
Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.
His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.
I-
I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.
Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.
50 inches. The mind reels.
This is so much more impressive than I can understand and comprehend and I would love to know more about A horizon
Do you love the color of the Soil?
Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.
Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.
A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.
This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.
Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:
Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.
Exactly
reblog to slowblink at your mutuals
Good morning, here's a picture of the abandoned Howard Johnson on Afton mountain, near Waynesboro, right around the corner from the Northern entrance of the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 0. It's one of my favorite places.
how it feels waiting for people to react to a post you’re proud of