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[stephanie085]

It is up to Democrats to win back the working class voters.

David Brooks: The most important job now is to stop Trump

David Brooks writes that the most important job now is to stop Trump

[stephanie085]

Ukrainians Abroad Are Going Back to Their Country to Fight

Ukrainians Abroad Are Going Back to Their Country to Fight

As central Europe braces for an influx of Ukrainians fleeing their country, some Ukrainians living abroad are choosing to go back, to fight

[fravery]

Anna Alfrida (Suécia, 1896 - 1967) “Before The Storm”

[fravery]

Rob van Hoek - Beeldend Kunstenaar - Artist

[summerwages]

Thicket..

[dudewhoabides]

Delbert McClinton- “You Were Never Mine” Live in Studio 1A

[theoreticalpermaculture]

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Grant Lechner

[carmenlyonsart]

Over halfway now! #wip #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #drawing #illustration #flintcorn #zeamays #colouredpencils #coloredpencil https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXnb6yswxZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heaveninawildflower]

More botanical illustrations taken from ‘Flora Batava’ by Jan Kops (1765–1849).

Published 1885.

www.BioLib.de

GNU Free Documentation License,

Wikimedia.

[philosophybits]

“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.”

— Richard Powers, The Overstory (via quotespile)

[kalifissure]

The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

Keeping the spark alive is hard in any relationship. It's especially hard for fruit trees trying to attract pollinators.

[gardeningwithpina]

Kleiman compared mango trees at a local farm in Homestead, Florida. One plot of trees had weeds growing around them. The other plot was maintained and weed-free.

The pollinators preferred the trees with the weeds. In turn, the trees benefitted and produced more mangos. In fact, there were between 100 to 236 mangos on the trees with weeds, compared to between 38 to 48 on the trees without weeds.

Kleiman points out findings apply to mango trees, but also to all of the roughly 80 percent of flowering plants of Earth, including fruit trees and all flowering vegetable plants like tomatoes, beans, eggplants and squash. She also hopes this information can help farmers save time and money, as well as reduce the use of chemical pesticides.

[kingxen]

Goodbye Leo by Portraitsbysuzy

[trixclibrarian]

my sweet hens 🖤

[bttrflyblu]

Blues my Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me - Orquesta Brazofuerte

[distilled-prose]

@goneahead @bcmaxwell @thelovelymazza6 @pocketfullofpoesies @dustyfields

[goneahead]

@distilled-prose @bcmaxwell @thelovelymazza6 @pocketfullofpoesies @dustyfields You should call in Scotland Yard…

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[beautiful-contrast]

Pioneertown Hotel (Photographed by Caleb Jones)  

[justmeagain4]

Pioneertown was built in the high desert of southern California in ,1946 with money from 17 friends and investors including Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Gene Autry.🌸

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