cherry valley forever
The Bowery Presents
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Jules of Nature
bliss lane
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KIROKAZE
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Origami Around
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Xuebing Du
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@fairywwren
well c:
looks like i'll be pretty inactive for a while! in fact i might not be coming back? hopefully, honestly! i'll be pretty busy with the competition for this job, and if i get it i wont be able to get on anymore! so wish me luck!! and maybe i'll be back someday!
“Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”
A wolf goes for a walk in the woods and meets a dog for the first time
This is fairy encounters to the core. It sends shivers down my spine.
“Montauk, NY” will be one of the 5 new art prints available after my shop update, Friday May 4th at Noon Central. 9"x12", limited edition of 50
So around November a friend gave me a deer carcass for a project I’m in the process of cultivating. I left it hang in a tree over winter to dry out. Today, I went to take it down…but to my surprise, I found new life forming in the heart of death.
THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME
@normal-horoscopes seems up your alley
MANY BIRDS HAVE LIVED INSIDE OF ME
Yamamoto Masao 山本昌男 (1957 - ).
Le photographe japonais Masao Yamamoto crée ces images poétiques et délicates qui évoquent des souvenirs évanescents à partir de paysages et de natures mortes.
Il réalise lui-même les tirages de ses photographies, toujours dans de petits formats, et les travaille avec du thé et d’autres techniques pour les user et donner l’impression qu’ils ont subis la patine du temps.
Source : http://www.yamamotomasao.jp/
Black Cryptid
I love this cat a lot
A helpful guide to some common birds here in the western US
Here are a few more, for your birding needs:
please allow me to thank you by giving you one in return
Thank you for your contribution to the birding community
Here is some more helpful identification knowledge of birbs
for you
Vortex rings may look relatively calm, but they are concentrated regions of intensely spinning flow, as this poor jellyfish demonstrates. The rings form when a high-speed fluid gets pushed suddenly (and briefly) into a slower fluid. In the case of this bubble ring, a burst of air is pushed by a diver into relatively still water. The vorticity caused by the two areas of fluid trying to move past one another forms the ring. Like a spinning ice skater who pulls his arms inward, the narrow core of the vortex spins fast due to the conservation of angular momentum. Meanwhile, the bubble ring moves upward due to its buoyancy, pulling nearby water in as it goes. This catches the hapless jellyfish (who relies on vortex rings itself) and gives it quite a spin. But. don’t worry, the photographer confirmed that the jelly was okay after its ride. (Video credit: V. de Valles; via Ashlyn N.)
naughty jellies get sent to V O R T E X R I N G to atone for their sins
SATAN’S BALLOON ANIMALS
guess what, it’s time for another episode of Weird Biology! today we’re going to learn about a creature that looks like a stained-glass window, but stalks the oceans with toxic might powered only by the wind like a sailing ship of old.
that’s right, it’s the devil’s own shopping bag-
the name is almost longer than the animal.
The Portuguese Man o’ War is a floating jellyfish relative called a Hydrozoan. it was named after the 18th century sailing ship, apparently by a blind person. “oh, it looks like a sailing ship under full sail” no it doesn’t, shut up. it looks like a rogue walmart shopping bag that blew into the Atlantic and makes a living by strangling innocent sea turtles.
but like the aforementioned plastic bag, the Man o’ War uses its lovely blue-purple air sac to catch the breeze. it wanders in groups through the warm waters of the Atlantic, driven along by the wind and tides. kind of poetic, really.
as long as you don’t look underwater, anyway.
I’m about to ruin it for everybody, hang on.
like so many other things in life, it’s not what you see on the surface that’s important but what is underneath that counts.
in this case, what’s underneath is up to 165 feet of venomous tentacles. it’s like that thing they say about icebergs, where you only see the top 10% and the rest is an invisible ship-killing nightmare? it’s exactly like that.
except with poison tentacles.
the Man o’ War is basically a biological fishing trawler, trailing these stupidly long tentacles like a fine mesh net through the water. and when an innocent fish who probably has a family at home comes into contact with this “net”, specialized cells called Nematocysts are triggered to fire tiny poison harpoons into the victim, causing instant death or paralysis.
the tentacle then reels itself upward into the body of the Man o’ War like a fishing line, dragging its helpless victim upward to be digested.
so, uh, actually not like a fishing trawler then, not like a fishing trawler at all.
unless the fishing trawler was designed by Junji Ito.
though the Man o’ War may look like a jellyfish, it’s definitely not. in fact, it’s not even a single animal! it’s actually four separate organisms jammed into a venomous trenchcoat like three best friends trying to sneak into an R rated movie.
“how the fuck even”, I hear you say. and that’s a valid question! it’s not everyday that we discover that what we thought was a single animal is actually four smaller animals living communally to form a larger, more dangerous animal. it would be like discovering that opossums are actually comprised of 17 rats each.
no word on if they do a silly dance and tap their fingers together to fuse or what though.
in the Man o’ War’s case, these four individual kinds of “polyps” that comprise the complete final form are the air sac polyp (gets the gang around), the digestive polyp (converts murdered fish into energy for the whole gang), the reproductive polyp (makes small clones of each individual gang member), and the tentacle polyp (murders things indiscriminately for the sheer joy of it).
that’s right, the tentacles are a separate animal! you might be wondering if they sometimes come loose, wander off, and just sting people/animals randomly when they drift into populated areas. what a silly question!
yeah, happens all the time.
SHIT.
while rarely fatal, Man o’ Wars stings can seriously injure humans. this is a big problem in areas where Man o’ Wars are common, because storms and predators can knock the tentacles right the fuck off. the tentacles drift away, only to wash ashore and sting a hapless beachgoer weeks later. that’s right, rogue tentacles can still sting for days or weeks after separation! even if the Man ‘o War is beached! isn’t that neat! fuck!
the discovery of a beached Man o’ War usually closes the entire fucking beach, for this reason. would YOU want to go fuck around in the sand if it might be full of over a hundred feet of poison spaghetti too fine to notice with the naked eye?
if the answer is yes, I have great news about a bridge I’d like to sell you.
if all this information upset you, I’d like to offer my deepest condolences. but buckle up for one last upsetting fact, and here it is: Man o’ War are spreading.
usually restricted to warm waters, climate change has driven the Man o’ War as far north as Great Britain. that’s awful awful awful news for any country that touches the Atlantic ocean, which is lots of them.
luckily, we have dependable allies in this fight: sea turtles and the Mola Mola! (which I’ve written about before) unfortunately just about all we can do at this point is to cheer these awesome devil-balloon-munchers on from the safety of shore, while trying to invent a Man o’ War-proof barrier net.
for now, watch out for anything that looks like a floating plastic bag.
and for god’s sake, watch where you step.
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IMAGE SOURCES
img1- National Geographic img2- The Garden of Eadon img3- Sean Nash img4- Enrico Villa img5- livescience.com img6- diply.com img7- Daily Mail img8- Sun Sentinel
take a look at this beauty of a bird!!!!!!!!
this is the many-colored fruit dove and its GORGEOUS!!!
Check out this robotic hand which can touch and feel, improving perception and reflexes for its user. [ Δ ]
This Robot Hand Will Allow You To Bother An Entire Duck
The only appropriate animal testing: their fucking patience
Too sweet ! It’s time for the spring ephemerals to enjoy their moment in the sun. These magical flowers emerge by the thousands in early spring under the forest canopy before it leafs out. in Catharpin, Virginia - early April
went to the park recently c:
“In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.” ~Kobayashi Issa
Happy birthday to dear Dana @was-bleibt-der-zeit!! Wishing you lots of joy and surrounded by all the things you love, today and always!! Sending you love and *BIG HUGS*, my friend!! ~Angie 😙💕🤗
These crown series are from elementalchild, @sixpenceee
