#canker

[wanderingmind867]

I have a bunch of pimples under my nose, and I've itched at them a lot. Now I feel kind of uncomfortable there, and I really hate it. I hate how the itching and the sore feeling there seem linked, and I hate even more how much I feel like I keep wanting to itch at my nose. I also still have a small bit of my canker left, and that annoys me.

On top of all this, I also feel like my posts haven't had a whole lot of attention. I'm tempted to ask if people have seen them, but I also don't know if I should. It feels like a decent amount of new people have followed me recently, and I also made a post about feeling sedentary. So maybe I should just pause here and quit while I'm ahead.

[an1992an]

I still wanted this break so here’s Yuksek Sosyete for y’all.

[inthecityofgoodabode]

Moss & Other Rainy Saturday Sights

The chives are bouncing back. This is all new growth since the snow melted a few days ago: 

We got a little rain today: 

Jam: 

Roly: 

Poly: 

We’ve got a rat in the attic. We can hear it scratching at night. The Red Menace & Silverback go apeshit because they know what it is, where it is & are frustrated they can’t get to it & murder it. We know it comes out at night to feed in the garden & steal bird seed from our feeders so I picked up a live trap to place in the garden. I don’t use kill traps outside anymore because, no matter how cleverly I thought I had placed them, I’ve inadvertently killed wrens in the past with them & that just hurts my soul: 

It looks like our Yoshino cherry has canker on some of its limbs so I’ll need to do some pruning & treatment once things dry out from the rain: 

What I imagine the “body” of a gelatinous cube looks like: 

Earthworm making for higher ground so it doesn’t drown: 

[wildlifeaid]

This rather pretty pigeon, rescued by one of our volunteers, has a nasty case of canker - a potentially fatal disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas gallinae. The cheese-like deposits formed in the birds throat and around the beak can make feeding hard, if not impossible, leading the poor bird to die of starvation. Luckily, if caught early enough, it is completely treatable and this pigeon is currently recovering in our quarantine facility. Once fully recovered, it will return to the wild once more. #wild #wildlife #rescue #simoncowell #wildlifeaid #vet #veterinary #bird #pigeon #story #hospital #patient #picoftheday #wildliferescue #animal #animals #nature #animalsofinstagram #canker #disease #instadaily #instagood #weekend https://www.instagram.com/p/B7dh7YogwFV/?igshid=152lmoa170ko9

[imamacanker]

As soon as I saw the photo, I could not resist drawing them together. <3

Black Hat character of Alan Ituriel

Charlie character of Vivziepop

[ahb-writes]

Hers was a happiness so complete that it threatened to canker his soul.

Kiersten White (And I Darken)

[babylon-crashing]

gristle

We are still of use though the gash smells sour,

amethyst rot. We're twitching devices ---

sanded bones and stitches. The worms devour

all that the obsidian knife slices:

meaty scads and sheaves of skin. This butcher's

love of gristle, of grotesqueness, of boils

that one picks at when they wish the blisters

to burst. The mirror knows how darkness spoils

when cast from its surface. We are of use

because we dream. The stone scalpel cannot.

The hand behind it won't. Dreams of clabber.

Dreams of grubs in the lesion. We seduce

all that the suture holds dear: curdle, clot,

congeal. Dreams of May rot. Dreams of canker.

[brownhillsbob]

September 20th - The conker (or horse chestnut to be formal for non-UK readers) harvest this year is ample, which is excellent to see considering so many of these marvellous, noble trees are having their foliage ravaged by leaf  miners and cankers.

Here at Darlaston, the nuts are so copious, even though the kids gather around, there are loads of them left on the verge, a bounty I could only ever dream of as a kid.

I’ve said it many times but I do think there’s a real primitive instinct with British men and conkers. We’re programmed to collect and admire them from an early age.