Scraps. Odds and Ends

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These Wolves Didn't Just Transform The Ecosystem #wildlife #wolves #amazing #ecosystem

#shorts In 1995, Yellowstone released 14 wolves, sparking an unforeseen transformation. They preyed on deer, reducing their numbers, and als

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Man, 30, completes encyclopedia of animals he started at nine

Josh Gabbatiss began survey of all living creatures more than two decades ago with corals, worms and jellyfish

Be inspired.

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Music is not dead

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alansmith888

4 months ago

I’m 550 years old and I still listen to the stones. This reminds me of the times when we held the hot gates in Sparta against the Persians.

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New documentary sheds light on artist Eric Ravilious, a romantic visionary lost in war

Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War

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REVIEW

This is a book about geese, yes. Their fluctuations, their vexed taxonomies, the “fractal complexity” of their flocks, their skill at whiffling, in which they perform aeronautical body rolls when coming into land. “If I could learn one thing from geese,” Acheson writes, “it would be to whiffle.” There are goose mysteries too. Amazingly, greylag pairs who keep losing chicks will foster their young out to more successful parents, who are willing to adopt as it improves the odds of their own chicks’ survival.

Reading The Meaning of Geese may inspire you to descend on north Norfolk this winter yourself.

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Meute

Amazing live band.

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Enthusiastic British naturalist.

He's just had a book published about Geese.

I'm in.

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about pete scully

Thank you for visiting my sketchblog! My name is Pete, I live in Davis (California), and I am an urban sketcher and avid keeper of sketchboo

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Devonport

Chloe Honum

The man has chosen that he wants his ashes scattered from the end of the pier

where he used to fish with his buddies. They’d sit on overturned paint buckets. Sometimes the waves gusted up

and the hems of his pants got wet and salty. He liked the gulls that stood on the railing, all puffed up with sky.

Having made the decision, he walks at dusk to the end of the pier and looks out at the sea.

As he turns away, he sometimes gives a small, happy nod, like a man thinking yes, I will buy this house.

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Eric Ravillious Prints.

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator, and wood engraver. He grew up in Sussex and is particularly known for his watercolors of the South Downs and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity

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Our most valuable thoughts are often those that arise by chance at the moments we least expect them.

What is a Flâneur? An Incomplete Guide to the Meaning and Philosophy

What is a flaneur? What does flaneur mean? This post outlines the history, definition and philosophy. Discover the true flaneur meaning.

There’s the brilliant business idea when you’re walking down the sidewalk, in no particular hurry to get where you’re going, merely taking in the sights and sounds. The drowsy midnight discovery that wakes you up from your pre-sleep hypnotic trance. The elevator epiphany. Traffic light insight. Bathtub revelation.

It’s these random moments that are the raison d’etre for the flâneur.

What is a flâneur, you ask?

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Eric Slater. Stormy Seas.

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A campaigner against economic inequality.

Gary Stevenson telling it like it is, unlike the BBC again failing to do its job in holding the government to account.

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Dance.

Moon dance, you were not to blame.

Nor you, lovely white moth.

But I saw you together.

Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Kreymborg - Wikipedia