Rise, Red As Dawn

reader, artist, writer, christian, infj, slytherclaw, lover of cats & tea || Currently Reading: Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

[lonelywoodland]

Sarita Lolita

[tkkatherineblog]

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[sailorofships]

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

[dangerbooze]

HOLY SHIT

[okapiandpaste]

THE LAST ONE

[solarpunkcast]

Solarpunk as fuck!!

[fancynewaddress]

Reblogging for “I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.”

[teaboot]

I was sifting through a burn pile the other day and found a dried-out log that was growing bright green baby leaves. Upside-down. Without roots. After being cut into pieces over a year ago

[bpdboyyy-blog]

do you ever get that jealousy but it’s not anger it’s like, you get depressed with jealousy? like fuck I’m sad this person talks to these people and already has multiple people that could easily replace me ugh. fucking kill me.

[aww-so-pretty]

This dog is so beautiful

[vol14-remade-deactivated2021051]

college is like *gets an email* *walks somewhere* *realizes u left ur water bottle at home* *walks somewhere* *walks somewhere* *gets an email* *gets an email*

[spookyy-foxx-deactivated2025031]

Can’t wait for it to heal but I’m so happy with it 🐉💞

[vanilla-voy]

like… i want to be worshiped, gently. i want little kisses pressed to my shoulders as we fall asleep. i want arms wrapped around me from behind. i want hands roaming all over me, i want wandering eyes. i want to be loved and loved and loved.

[givemearmstopraywith]

safe places to leave your heart:

the sea

empty churches

lilac groves

graveyards at night

old libraries

dusty used bookstores

sundappled shades of yellow, green, and pink

books of poetry

rose gardens

the sleeve of your last lover

a knot of willow branches

a misty morning in early summer

floral print

in the company of a cat

a sunrise or a sunset

deep green forests

[setheverman]

don’t worry, you’re still in the “early life” part of your wikipedia page

[veryoldlady]

cool

[peepuddle-deactivated20230124]

i LOVE BEING IN BED !!!!!! i love being all cuddly and warm and curling up into a ball and feeling tiny !!!!! this is what life’s about !!!!!!!!!!!

[punkmlm]

what if we kissed...... and fell in love....... and had a healthy, fulfilling, long-term relationship...... haha jk jk.......................................................................................................................................................................... unless 👀💋

[teenscoolest]

[defender-of-fictional-women]

[hyperhedgehog]

[8rujaa]

wish my hair grew little flowers on its own how neat would that be

[traptacular-deactivated20180125]

[90svigilante-deactivated2018022]

This is so cute

[revengeofthecis]

@symphonyofchains

[saucefactory-deactivated2019103]

I LOVE THE WEDDING OFFICIANT IN THE BACKGROUND TOO HE’S SO HAPPY FOR THEM 😍😍😍😍

[kaidagreenscale]

Look at how happy they are! It’s so sweet!

[luidilovins]

He did a little twirl like an excited puppy

[demexo-deactivated20191126]

If my future husband is not this happy when we about to get married then I’m not marrying him.

[yungmelaninking]

Big Mood

[c3rvida3]

People will be like, "It's so ignorant and telling when people who genuinely like me but don't know I'm gay will be openly homophobic in front of me. It's like they've never considered that anybody could be gay," and then like two conversations later start talking about how drug addicts and alcoholics are morally reprehensible, irredeemable fuck-ups who don't deserve sympathy or healthcare.

[c3rvida3]

I'm not conflating being LGBT with being an addict; I'm just saying anybody could be in recovery or currently using without you necessarily knowing it. Addicts are people. They're your loved ones and your neighbors and your cashier at the grocery store and people you'd never suspect, and they matter.

[c3rvida3]

And you know what else? You can't claim to support the "good" addicts in recovery, the ones whose pasts are years behind them, if you're going to demonize people currently using and systematically deny them help.

You can't claim to love someone and be proud of them and also believe that there was a point in their life when they deserved to die.

[c3rvida3]

And giving addicts this level of understanding doesn't even mean that you have to forgive people for the horrible things they may have done while they were using. You can accept that a person has grown and changed and want them to get better, and still not want them in your life. These aren't contradictory statements.

[c3rvida3]

*kicks down the door* AND ANOTHER THING.

It's shocking how many people pride themselves on their advocacy for marginalized people -- POC, LGBT individuals, mentally ill individuals, disabled individuals -- and then turn around and have absolutely no sympathy for those struggling with addiction, as if addiction isn't a huge fucking problem that widely and often disproportionately affects the very people they claim they're fighting for.

[glamgrilldad]

Here to add that the lovely folks at Queer Appalachia have recently started an additional Instagram account (and do real work in their communities) providing resources with helping with harm reduction for queer folk who use drugs.

[c3rvida3]

Some great information from their Instagram that just launched.

You can also check them out at https://www.queerappalachia.com/