thoughts from the desert

[imintheleaves]

[90377]

Spring Wood by Jane Ball

[kf1n3]

Painting study of this fairy portal

[thecollectibles]

Fan Art by Daniel Oxford

[floralls]

Forde Abbey House and Garden, Chard by Annie Spratt

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Chinese Paradise-flycatcher /Terpsiphone incei in dongzhai 董寨, henan ◇ photo by 仇绍强

[nature-travel-photography]

Pacific Ocean from Yachats, OR. [OC] [4000×3000]. - Author: masterp0lygon on reddit

[escapekit]

Stone Coil Arrangements  Wales-based artist Jon Foreman’s in collaboration with artist James Brunt have created precisely arranged stones Coil and surge across sandy beaches. Each work is precise in size, hue and shape which contrasts the man-made construction with their organic backdrops.

[pwlanier]

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[thatdisasterauthor]

...I love this thing so much. I want an army of them.

[ivytea]

travelling maison of snail 🐌

[thinkslikesrocks]

More celadonite! This is literally dirt in water. It’s quite a lot more vivid green in person. I think I can get more blue and darker green material from other deposits though, excited to process and compare! I think we have true azurite in some places too. 

[shittycryptids]

deer with a thorax

[gallusrostromegalus]

I have great news for OP about mammalian anatomy!

[draconym]

Gallus you are correct but OP you’re valid I gotchu baby

[gallusrostromegalus]

YEEEESSSSSS!!! 

Mostly I just like the adjective “Thoracic” because it’s fun to say and humans consistently misunderstand that we are but excessively complicated chambered worms.

These slap though 10/10 would ride as a fantasy mount or allow to snitch from my picnic any day.

[desertnightpostitnotes]

fantasy winged version: 

snakefly! 

[dummy-kanji]

Mitsurugi-sha in Fushimi Inari Shrine por Takashi Hososhima Por Flickr: Photographed at Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto. 伏見稲荷にて。 [ Nikon D5200, Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM, 26mm, f/1.8, 1/25sec, ISO800 ]

[fractured-shield]

Absolutely love using the internet for research for my books because it’s like

“Historical types of spears by height” “life in medieval fishing communities” “how long term trauma and untreated mental illness affect the brain” “how tall is a moose”

[pastperfectcontinuous]

“As more and more people find themselves working at jobs that are in fact beneath their abilities, as leisure and sociability themselves take on the qualities of work, the posture of cynical detachment becomes the dominant style of everyday intercourse (...) The disparity between romance and reality, the world of the beautiful people and the workaday world, gives rise to an ironic detachment that dulls pain but also cripples the will to change social conditions, to make even modest improvements in work and play, and to restore meaning and dignity to everyday life.”

—Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

[desertnightpostitnotes]

As one who by choice works a "below my skill level" job, I don't get this. My job isn't where I pour my abilities- those go into my after work hours of adventure and art. Those are for ME, not my employer. My comparatively easy non-competitive non-advancement job is only one of several means to my personal joy.

[mymodernmet]

Artist Yulia Brodskaya pushes the boundaries of paper quilling with her dramatic portraits on black paper. 

[thecollectibles]

Art by Brock Grossman