forneverold

colour, new

[emmaklee]

Hannah Streefkerk

crocheted & embroidered lichen installation

[mapsontheweb]

The lost rivers of London that have now been built over.

[dogzcats]

pomegranates in still life (details)

[lichenaday]

Xanthomendoza fulva

Bare-bottomed sunburst lichen

Look I didn't come up with this common name but I'm a big fan. Bare-bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round!

images: source | source

[humansoflatecapitalism]

[pigswithwings]

oh…

[mamaangiwine]

When people graffiti on buildings: Yes! Ha ha! Fuck yes!

When people graffiti on rockfaces and cliffsides on hiking trails: What the absolute fuck.

[mamaangiwine]

It's not punk to poison the soil, dude.

[lichenaday]

I see lichens painted over so often and it breaks my heart. They can't photosynthesize under there, y'all! Please check for lichens/rock crusts before you graffiti!

[todaysbird]

For whatever reason tumblr won’t just let me post this submission, but these are Egyptian geese! @annoying-and-upset

[madmonksandmaenads]

This poster describes animals like Pliny the Elder and honestly I'm here for it.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 1 August 2023

In this seaside walled garden on a well-drained soil the annual Papaver rhoeas (field poppy) was flowering. The red flowers were contrasting with the larger, green seed-heads of Papaver somniferum (opium poppy).

Jill Raggett

[sexpigeon]

Welcome to the age of enthusiasm.

[theinfiknight]

Unironically love this

[thegirldownthelaine]

Thank you for the tags @lakecountylibrary

[hhbm]

[cabinporn]

A small houseboat named Sneci on Lake Tisza in Hungary. 
Designed by @benetamas_works Photographs by @studio_meter More photos on @cabinporn.

[forneverold]

#notmyboat

https://benetamas.com/#/architecture/house-boat

[regging]

a jstor article is like a beautiful wild horse and a control+f search is like using a sugar cube and a calming voice to tame it

[spandexinspace]

I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

[homoerotisch]

landscape with the fall of icarus, pieter bruegel the elder (c. 1650) / landscape with the fall of icarus, william carlos williams (1960)

[forneverold]

Ekphrasis

[shisasan]

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. I want to gaze with astonishment at moldy garden fences, I want to experience them all, to hear young birch plantations and trembling leaves, to see light and sun, enjoy wet, green-blue valleys in the evening, sense goldfish glinting, see white clouds building up in the sky, to speak to flowers. I want to look intently at grasses and pink people, old venerable churches, to know what little cathedrals say, to run without stopping along curving meadowy slopes across vast plains, kiss the earth and smell soft warm marshland flowers. And then I shall shape things so beautifully: fields of colour…

Egon Schiele, from a letter to Anton Peschka written 1910

[forneverold]

First darn

[hedgehog-moss]

I love leafing through my old diaries like “what was I up to on this day X years ago?” and stumbling upon important childhood nonsense I would never have remembered otherwise. In July of 2001 my cousin & I found a nahuatl dictionary at our abuela’s house and naturally started looking for insults, but it was hard to find them since the dictionary was nahuatl -> spanish, so we ended up elevating random entries (like ‘flat blade’, or ‘owner of [thing]’) to the rank of insults. Other children (cousins + temporary summer friends) were annoyed by our private joke at first, we’d be like “spoken like a thing-owner 🙄” or don’t be such a flat blade / I don’t talk to iguanas, etc, but then our insults became this cool in-group thing. Vanilla pod was somewhat friendly; at the other end of the slander spectrum was owner of something / dueño de algo, for some reason this one was a one-hit KO. It took like 2 days for a whole new slang to appear in this one Mexican town in the summer of 2001 and then it disappeared without a trace (save for my earnest diary entries) at the end of summer when this little linguistic community scattered