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“This intriguing formation, which resembles a fish’s or perhaps a dragon’s head, was discovered by Leigh Pugh on Stanton Moor Edge, near Birchover, when he was out trying to capture a photo of the sunrise. However, it was too cloudy to get a proper photo and that is when the photographer got the feeling that he was being watched.“

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Jacqueline Rush Lee Anthologia Manipulated book components 2007-2008

#photo #books #art #red #fav #the heart #n9

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Kenny Nguyen. When the Mountain Sings, 2022.

acrylic on canvas

itscolossal

Expressive Eyes Painted by Robyn Rich Peek Out from Vintage Tins

#anatomy #eyes #found objects #miniature #painting

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Bird Trails, Edu Aguilera

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briery

A house in a tree hollow, Topola Tekla in Chudów, Poland.

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Aragonite in clay matrix; Pantoja, Spain

#minerals

natureisthegreatestartist

Ever seen this before? It’s what happens when a rhubarb plant creates flowers. Arty and awesome, right? (Photos by my son.)

#Mine #Plants #Permaculture #organic gardening #pnw gardening #oregon gardening #rhubarb photoset #rhubarb #rhubarb flower #weird and wonderful #bizarre and beautiful #living art #living sculpture #arty and awesome #vegetable flowers

archimodels

I just realized we can actually buy this here…

thebashfulbotanist

This tree is an example of a gemel, or two conjoined trees that fused together in a process called inosculation - essentially, self-grafting. This is pretty common in thin-barked trees like apple trees, blackthorn, beech, and olives, but pretty rare in thick-barked Douglas fir trees like this one. This tree has a lot of damage from boring beetles, possibly by Douglas fir beetles, Denroctonus pseudotsugae (I could be wrong, though). Being fused together might have weakened the tree, making it susceptible to beetle attack.