Seventy-Eight Bananas

"Well, they get banana fever. It's a terrible disease." - J.D. Salinger

[zhuanghongru]

1400 year old ginkgo tree.

 地點：陝西省西安市古觀音禪寺 

Photography: Han Fei

[hedgehog-moss]

I was at the coffeeshop in the village and someone asked me how my llamas are doing, and a woman overheard and told me that when she was a kid, her parents used to have a couple of llamas in their sheep farm, and every single sheep in their flock imprinted on one of the two llamas. Each sheep chose the best most charismatic llama according to mysterious sheep criteria, and never wavered in their ovine loyalty. Each of the two llamas was worshiped by a small sub-flock of devoted sheep who followed him everywhere like Jesus’s apostles and only left their field for transhumance when led by “their” llama. The funniest thing is the way this woman overheard the word “llama” and immediately came to sit next to me to tell me this, like she had waited since childhood to share her bewilderment about the two religious congregations of sheep led by rival llama prophets in her family farm.

[augustdementhe]

I’d have trouble keeping that in myself.

[weaselle]

i love how 100k of us feel the same need to tell everyone that she felt

[puffsaddy]

[papapiusxiii]

From Leonard Cohen’s final letter to his dying muse, Marianne Ihlen. She died in July 2016, and Cohen followed her shortly after, dying in November 2016.

“Well Marianne it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.”

— Leonard Cohen

[nobrashfestivity]

Michael Kenna, Forest Edge, Hokuto Hokkaido, Japan, 2004

[lost-carcosa]

[leebrontide]

It's just very important to me that you know prairie-style gardens exist.

Ok. Thank you. Carry on.

[dappledwithshadow]

Irises

Hokusai, s.d.

Van Gogh, 1890

[unsubconscious]

Contour plowing, a farming practice that works with the slopes of the land, is an effective means of soil management which helps to prevent soil erosion, Wyoming, United States. Photo by Emory Kristof, National Geographic, July 1976.

[lobelee]

[dimension20official]

If you know someone who speaks dismissively of people working service or retail jobs, please remind them that they are bad.

[lynati]

“I want this service to exist because I love it and use it all the time, but I think the people providing me with this service should suffer and struggle.” <–  If that’s been your opinion, please reflect on what kind of person that makes you, and perhaps change said opinion.

[hughhighlander]

a rainbaaaaaah.

sheipsees via valais blacknose sheep scotland

[theinformationcollector]

TIL the Appalachian mountains in N America and the mountains of Greenland, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia are all one chain

via beatlyzer.com

[memewhore]

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

@woolandflax they balded him

[thenatsdorf]

Cheetah calls for his sibling. (via)

[synthecid]

Tsuzuki Mayumi

[horrorlesbians]

normalize hand tattoos for people with boring, normal careers 2023

[obestriddbifftomat]

Very hot of her

[objectoccult]

[sundhais]

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen. “You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”