Unbetitelt

[michaelnordeman]

Hästhov, or coltsfoot in English, is one of the classic early signs of spring across much of Europe and parts of Asia. Long before the leaves appear, the bright yellow flowers push their way up through roadsides, ditches and disturbed ground, often while winter still lingers nearby. Later in the season the large rounded leaves emerge, said to resemble the shape of a horse’s hoof, which gave rise to both the Swedish name hästhov (“horse hoof”) and the English name coltsfoot.

The scientific name, Tussilago farfara, also tells a story. Tussilago comes from Latin and roughly means “cough dispeller”, since the plant was historically used in folk medicine for coughs and chest problems. Farfara is believed to refer to the plant’s pale underside of the leaves.

After flowering, the plant produces soft white seed heads rather similar to oversized dandelion clocks, scattering their seeds with the spring wind across the landscape.

Coltsfoot/Tussilago farfara/hästhov. Värmland, Sweden (29 April 2019, 13 April 2021, 10 May 2025).

[me-henry-blog]

In german....

[michaelnordeman]

Willow Warbler/lövsångare. Värmland, Sweden (August 1, 2021).

[bowlby4]

[hot-girls-in-overalls]

[cineper]

"You have´t got a lot of time? Listen mister. When I came in here tonight you´ve seen an old clock running down. I´m tired. I´m through. Happens to everybody sometime. Will happen to you too some day. With me it´s a little bit of everything. I guess.. Back aches, head aches. I can´t sleep nights it´s so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed. ..and walk down the streets. I go right on doing it. What am I gonna do? Knock it?! I have to go on making a living so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain´t worth waiting for if I got to do business with crumbs like you. And I know what your after."

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET ( 1953)

director. Samuel Fuller

[cosmonautroger]

Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, You Were Never Lovelier, 1942

[infanteriesauvage]

« La Bêtise publique me submerge (…). Jamais les intérêts de l’esprit n’ont moins compté. Jamais la haine de toute grandeur, le dédain du Beau, l’exécration de la littérature enfin n’a été si manifeste. »

Gustave Flaubert, lettre à Ivan Tourgueniev.

[infanteriesauvage]

Decorated German Great War hero and author Ernst Jünger and his wife, Gretha, announce the birth of a son, whom they will name Ernst Jr.

[opdrie]

The bicycle

[porterdavis]

[liberalsarecool]

This asshole said immigrants were eating pets.

[cosmonautroger]

John Coltrane

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Father and son Ellison started with Oracle, added Discovery, then CBS/Paramount, now Warner Brothers/CNN.

He bought CBS and CNN to change them into right wing propaganda outlets after receiving a request from pal Trump.

[porterdavis]

[vintage-every-day]

Claudia Cardinale (1959)

[vintage-every-day]

Gregory Peck and his wife, Véronique, with the Oscar, Peck won for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film 𝑻𝒐 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅.

[vintage-every-day]

On October 22, 1895, at the Gare Montparnasse in Paris, a steam locomotive overran its stop, smashed through the station wall, and plunged onto the street below.