Pavee Mind Soup

Various thoughts, rants, feelings, pictures, songs, and anything else that I deem pretty, silly, beautiful, or important. ~22~ In Love ~ Mouthy little kitten with a heart of gold ~Fyre Fox~ ~Roaming wild gothic witch~

[facefyrefox]

Tumblr, goodbye.

I miss how Tumblr used to be some place where great art and interesting people could scream into the void. Now it's just vapid, filled with sad people throwing their misery into the world without care and attention to reality. I've moved past the "friends" I used to have in this space. I've moved past the need to keep this blog running to follow certain people, because they have changed and no longer serve a growth based purpose in my life. I have moved beyond the self-centered basis of this forum. I just can't do it anymore. I'll miss Tumblr a little, but best wishes. This pagan Pavee pauper is gonna ease on down to the next part of her journey. Love, Face

[parliamentrook]

the money skull, reblog for money and or skulls

[fuckosexual]

scottish twitter is gonna save the world

[llleighsmith]

i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

[smartmurderation]

it’s just choppin wood and harvesting vegetables and herbs from here on out

[llleighsmith]

amen!

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

unironically this

[pinetreeanarchism]

[frederick-the-ii]

Please hit me with more homesteading concept drawings

[showerthoughtsofficial]

The fact that the location of the world’s oldest tree has to be kept secret encapsulates everything that’s bad about humanity.

[hyperappreciation]

There’s a story about that, actually.

According to the smithsonianmag.com, the world’s oldest bristlecone pine was a nearly 5,000 year old tree later named Prometheus. In 1964, a man named Donald Rusk Currey decided to use an increment borer to determine its age (a process that cuts a small hole into the center of the tree trunk, and is not intended to kill the tree). Unfortunately, the borer got stuck. He and a park ranger cut the tree down to remove the equipment, and when they counted the tree rings, they realized their mistake. Oops. This incident lead to better protection of the remaining bristlecone pines.

There’s some wiggle room about what can be called “the world’s oldest living tree.” The world’s oldest living single tree is the tree that the OP is referring to. Its name is Methuselah,and it is also around 5,000 years old. Since its location is unknown, nobody knows what it looks like. But it might be this tree here:

But technically, it isn’t the oldest living tree. Let me explain.

It turns out that root systems of trees can send up genetically identical saplings (aka clones) via their root systems. Like so:

Which means the original trunk can die, but since the root system is attached to other trees which give it nutrients, it lives on. The root system can theoretically do this indefinitely. So the tree trunks could be fairly young, but the roots could be large and very, very, very old. So the oldest “tree” isn’t a small grove, it’s a logic-defying forest.

I’d like you to meet Pando.

This male quaking aspen covers 106 acres and is ancient. I’m talking an estimate of 80,000 years. The trees you can see are just “shoots” he sent up, and their average age is 130 years old. He is his own forest. If trees could talk, I’d love to hear what he had to say.

He might be dying, due to insects and drought (hmm, wonder what could have happened to cause that). A section of Pando is being studied in an attempt to find a solution. But in the meantime, we can enjoy him for his beauty.

TLDR: Yes please, protect the trees from humans!

[just-shower-thoughts]

The gender fluid term for sugar daddy is glucose guardian

[treasures-and-beauty]

Nordic sax by Mad Dwarf Workshop

[clitbeastwood]

[thewickedfaerie]

Plague by FlexDreams

[wordsnquotes]

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (via wordsnquotes)

[skyholic-deactivated20180115]

This headline and last paragraph though…

[facefyrefox]

This is the kind of writing I wanna see.

[102runway]

Gucci Spring-Summer 2017

[americancarsguide]

1950 Willys Station Wagon

www.german-cars-after-1945.tumblr.com - www.french-cars-since-1946.tumblr.com - www.japanesecarssince1946.tumblr.com - www.britishcarsguide.tumblr.com - www.italiancarsguide.tumblr.com - www.scandinaviancarsguide.tumblr.com - www.americancarsguide.tumblr.com

[shareaquote]

“There’s a difference in loving someone and being in love with someone.”

flaming-lesbiann  (via wordsnquotes)

[facefyrefox]

I'm thankful for my mother. She's an amazing, creative, powerful, selfless woman and I am proud to be her spawnling. Her human. She's the best. She's always been honest with me and always made sure I loved all people for all kinds of reasons. She's fuckin nuts, but she's great and she's my Mama and and and!

[facefyrefox]

💋☠💀👻🔥🦊

[moonbeamsandmayhemsbazaar]

🐉 Dragon Chainsaw Carving 🐉