[milksockets]

'fences' by alan wood, 1983 in earthworks and beyond: contemporary art in the landscape - john beardsley (1989)

[milksockets]

'fences' by alan wood, 1983 in earthworks and beyond: contemporary art in the landscape - john beardsley (1989)

[ittakesavillage-blog]

[creaturesofcomfort]

Tree Circus

Axel Erlandson was an arborsculptor, meaning he grew trees and shaped them to form ladders, towers, spiral staircases, cathedral windows, even chairs!  The Tree Circus lived in a road-side attraction outside Santa Cruz, CA until after Erlandson’s death in 1964 when they were moved to Gilroy Gardens.

[intermundia]

Io is a volcanic powerhouse, defying all expectations. Violent eruptions shoot out columns of gas and dust that reach far out into space, and send rivers of lava pouring across the landscape, creating a surface dotted with lakes of lava.

This little, tiny, small world of Io, you’d expect it to be geologically inactive. Instead, it’s the most volcanically active body in our solar system. The eruptions continue day in, day out, across the entire surface, a world like no other.

About the size of our moon, Io orbits closer to Jupiter than any other moon of its size. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and its gravitational pull on Io is enormous.

As Io comes in towards the planet, the gravitational pull of Jupiter is stronger, causing the very rock on Io to bulge out towards its host planet. Then, as Io moves further away, the bulge shrinks and moves, causing a tide of rock on Io that’s over 300 feet tall.

Io’s tidal bulge is continuously pulled towards Jupiter. So, as Io faces the planet at slightly different angles throughout its orbit, Jupiter not only raises the rock tide 300 feet up and down, but also drags that tidal bulge back and forth, 40 miles across Io’s surface.

As Io deforms, the intense friction generated by these tidal forces produces enough heat to drive Io’s spectacularly violent volcanism.

Solar System: Volcano Worlds on NOVA

[dozydawn]

[luniary]

ashtray by alfredo barbini 🐚

[tenisperfection]

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window. It is very important to romanticize this tree as much as possible.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022)    

[acidhues]

mycena subcyanocephala - x

[diary-of-alice]

“I adore looking at blossoming flowers. I like getting a sense of the world constantly reborn and enhanced.”

— Virginia Woolf  (via paper-fairy)

[middleeasternpoetry]

[kafk-a]

Cole Arthur Riley, from This Here Flesh

[ayasafia]

Sunday Evening by JoeLius DuBois Porter

[fairycosmos]

i am feeling emotional about the people in my phone because we are literally witnessing each others lives and growth in such an intimately distant way. i know your favourite book passages but i don't know your last name and if i make it to 60 i will probably still think of you often even then

[thiscountry]

Doves in love

[bocekcicek]

Torre de la Creu, Barselona, Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949).

[rooomeeeooo]