Oliver Perry

Coffee, cats & dogs, gardening, and CHOCOLATE

[stilllifequickheart]

Unknown artist

Carnivorous Plants

1903

[headlikeanorange]

A Venus Flytrap captures a wasp. (Kingdom of Plants - Sky)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[seedsforchangegardens]

Easy and creative ways to reuse tires! 

Two of our gardens at Seeds For Change are behind fire stations! We will definitely be re-using those huge tires for some great new projects!

Check us out at www.seedsforchangegardens.org

[greenfuturist]

(via An Infographic Breakdown Of The World’s Greenest Cities | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)

Gerd adds: great resource and nice graphs!!

[howstuffworks]

10 Amazing Green Cities

Vancouver is a coastal city, home to more than 560,000 people, and was named the world’s most livable city by the Economist magazine. It’s proved to be not only the most livable, but also Canada’s model for using renewable energy sources.

Vancouver has an ambitious 100-year plan for clean and green living. The city already leads the world in hydroelectric energy, which currently makes up 90 percent of its power supply. It also plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to levels 20 percent lower than reported in 1990 during the formation of the Kyoto Protocol. Fossil fuels will be reduced with city investments in wind, solar, wave and tidal energy systems.

Read more…

[ceaevultur]

Estoy enamorada de ciudades en las que nunca he estado y personas que no he conocido.

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[eldmt]

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[wapiti3]

Pictures of the basic forms in Germany and neighboring areas occurring species of orchids. 60 panels painted by the nature and color printing executed by Walter Müller (Gera) with descriptive text by dr. F. Kränzlin (Berlin) on Flickr.

Publication info Berlin, R. Friedlander & son, in 1904. BHL Collections: Book of the Week Collection New York Botanical Garden

[sevyeirekudza]

The second rebloom on my epidendrum hybrid has definitely outshined the previous flowers.

[namasteandcats]

[unexplained-events]

A Tibetan Monk blesses the deer that gather around him and someone snaps a picture. Upon viewing the picture they notice a rainbow had appeared.

[thesylverlining]

pretty sure this is the happiest picture I’ve seen in a long time

[thelonelyrogue]

magic is real

[unexplained-events]

I like how much this matters

[chingizhobbes]

my friends found this sleeping cat in istanbul and dressed her up.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[stunningpicture]

Lions pretend to be hurt by the bites of their young to encourage them.

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