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plant-scans

Barn owl, Life on Earth, David Attenborough, 1979

Cuties from the nearby forest.

#roe deer #forest #winter #my photos #nature photography #finland

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Weasel/vessla in its white winter coat. Värmland, Sweden (February 12, 2023).

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Eurasian Jays, Kuusamo, Finland

jsalophotography

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January Full Moon (2025)

batmanego

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

batmanego

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?