Sleepless in Memphis

My name is Anna, and here you will find a random assortment of stuff that I enjoy + some of my own photography. If you'd like to see some of my photos now please click the links above to either my Vsco or my Instagram. Thanks for visiting!

[ston-rampler]

Clue: The Movie’s multiple endings are fucking classic and i will stand by that fact until the day that i die, but hearing that they only played one ending each in the theatrical release is the funniest fucking thing ever. imagine seeing a great movie and going to talk about it with your friends/family/coworkers but none of you can agree on how it ended. and they did this in 1985, the absolute madmen

[stormdistrict]

@unknow

[world-of-yana]

[papayajuan2019]

Shout out to all the baby birds who had their first flight today

[grayskymorning]

tea by the lake

[mortalityplays]

not caring if people think you're stupid is a life hack. recognising that you are kind of stupid is an even bigger life hack. we build entire societies to take care of each other bc we're all kind of stupid. it's fine.

[mydododied-deactivated20200613]

Who lives here?

[harlings]

by Jason

[peacozy]

Cutest sweater ever!

[bibliolectors]

Lector invierno (ilustración de Jess Mason)

[vida-imensa]

James Lloyd Cole  

[calanthesfeuillemort]

Halloween Alphabet: F, the full moon above

[antiqueanimals]

Forest Homes. Written by Vitali Bianki. Drawings by Maĭ Miturich. 1979.

Internet Archive

[uwmspeccoll]

A Crow-Attack Winter’s Feathursday

On this last #Feathursday of 2022 we present a scene of winter conflict with American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) mobbing a predator Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) from the 1963 book Birds of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin nature artist Owen J. Gromme (1896-1991), published for the Milwaukee Public Museum, where Gromme was curator of birds and mammals, by the University of Wisconsin Press. The original painting is oil on canvas from 1956 and measures 24″ by 30″. Gromme writes:

The familiar feud between owls and crows is portrayed in this study of a Great Horned Owl and it assailants. Powerful and well armed though it may be, many a battered and befuddled owl has been temporarily bested by these persistent tormentors, until nightfall reverses the advantage.

He goes on to state that hunters often take advantage of this natural enmity and use owl decoys to lure crows to their death. Gromme states: “Sometimes hundreds of crows are shot in a few hours by the use of such a decoy.”

Why anyone would want to slaughter hundreds of these majestic animals is beyond our comprehension. Appalling!!

Read more about Gromme and his book.

View more posts from Gromme’s Birds of Wisconsin.

View more Feathursday posts.

[antiqueanimals]

Life in a Pond. Illustrated by Marjorie Hartwell. 1967.

Internet Archive

[antiqueanimals]

Noises in the Woods. Written by Judi Friedman. Illustrated by John Hamberger. 1979.

Internet Archive

[soracities]

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”

— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life (via unmaiden)