Water and Light

And other things Leslie likes

[expressions-of-nature]

Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

[izbirakin]

Sevdiğim kediler

[your-url-is-problematic]

sound on!!!

[secretie]

Leo 👑🦁♌️🌻☀️ Prints (for Llewellyn’s 2024 Astrological Calendar)

[wetpoem]

Visit Original Link

[opusmag]

[yuumei-art]

Lost in the Pages~ I’m thinking of doing a series of these with different settings like grassland, forest, etc. What would you like to see?

[lilblueorchid]

A spring that cannot be replaced 

Daily 30 min Paintings from pinterest photo reference! It’s a fun exercise I was doing back in 2021 and I felt like trying out again. It makes me happy to draw peaceful landscape outside of my work.  Also spring is in the air, and it’s making me so happy. 

[high-quality-tiktoks]

un borrador

[inamindfarfaraway]

Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -

why are your legs so long?

I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?

[horseonketamine]

i will never shut up about maned wolves

just look at it

look at this

one of the animals for sure

wretched beast

[whatacartouchebag]

If it’s neither wolf nor fox, then it’s cat software running on giraffe hardware.

[crazy-brazilian]

funny fellas wearing tights

[guooey]

[transette]

[naradreamscape]

Serious explanation here: she's teaching them the instinct of being alert around enclosure openings! For example, if these were wild cats living in a bush, they'd run the risk of a larger predator running up to the opening and grabbing one of them. The mother cat is also only bapping them lightly without claws, so those slaps are more of an annoyance meant to get the kittens' attention, and to teach them to keep their eyes out for potential threats.

[electricfireflies]

[victoriousvocabulary]

GALLIARDISE

[noun]

extreme gaiety; merriment.

Etymology: from Middle French gaillard - lively, vigourous; a lively dance.

[James R. Eads]

[lightlimes-deactivated20180921]

pictures where the sea and sky are no longer distinguishable

[curly-croissant]

If I may contribute

[tragedysquared]

not to be dramatic but like. this kind of indistinguishable meeting point of the sea and the sky is the center around which my life revolves

[bnq]

perfect boy .

[the-upper-shelf]

A young king

[reasonsforhope]

Swedish Xmas trees go into lakes to become fish nests | TheMayor.EU

As a way of upcycling and re-using Christmas trees, several Swedish organisations are collaborating in an initiative, which sees the placement of the spruces into lake waters with the aim of creating ..

“Here’s a good example of the concept of upcycling, if there ever was one.

Sportfiskarna is a Swedish sports fishermen’s association, which has come up with a unique and novel idea to reuse Christmas trees once the holidays are over. In their case, they’ve found that the spruce plants can make ideal habitats for fish, giving them a place to lay their eggs.

Every year, Sportfiskarna–together with Stroma tour operator, Stockholm City, WWF, and Skansen och Stockholms hamnar–collects old Christmas trees and lowers them in the waters in and around Stockholm. This creates new habitats for fish and fry since exploitation is threatening current habitats. The fir trees are bundled together and lowered into the water. The branches of the trees then become aquatic spaces where fish can play and reproduce with freedom and safety.

Reflecting the change in natural habitats

Christmas trees are collected in January every year. They are bundled together and a heavy stone is attached so they can sink and remain at the bottom without floating up. Then they are lowered into the water and new habitats can be formed at the bottom where fish get to use them as their new home.

The waters in Stockholm city and archipelago are today heavily affected by exploitation such as dredgings, boat traffic, quays and marinas. This affects the reproduction of fry because former untouched habitat areas are slowly vanishing…

“The fish’s natural habitat has been eradicated and there is currently not enough vegetation and structures in Stockholm’s polluted water, which is something the fish need. But by adding the spruce to the seabed we can make a kind of artificial reef that forms structures for the fish,” explained John Kärki, project leader at Sportfiskarna, speaking for the Stromma blog.”

-via The Mayor.eu, 1/20/23

[prinnay]

sky migration

[devinellekurtz]

Back to the Sea