A recently emerged male comet moth (Argema mittrei) dries its wings in the forest understorey in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar
Photo by Nick Garbutt
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Scheherazade’s One Thousand One Night Stories: Theme Change:
From Wikipedia:
The story goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهریار, “king”) would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed 1,000 such women…
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Perhaps I should change my theme name to One Thousand and One night Stories.
As long as you keep telling them. :-)
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David Cox – Going to the Hayfield [1849] on Flickr.
The hayfield was one of Cox’s favourite and most often repeated subjects; the image of the mounted farmer slowly making his way to the distant haymaking seems to have exerted a peculiar spell over the artist. So many versions exist in oil and watercolour that it is almost meaningless to count them, a task in any case made all the more difficult by Cox’s use of the same title to cover all the variations on the theme. Thus, certain identification of Cox’s pictures in exhibition or sales catalogues where dimensions are not given is extremely difficult.
[Philadelphia Museum of Art – Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 91.4 cm]
We are all of us going to a hayfield in one way or another.
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Heh. I think some of sophisticatedajumma’s Scheherazade technique must be rubbing off on me. :-)
No, I hadn’t yet posted the prettiest gull of them all. I’ll do that now.
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Missy Higgins
Everyone’s Waiting
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Heermann’s Gull
Moss Landing State Beach, CA
7/20/13
Second-prettiest gull of them all.
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a-s-k-i-n-g-a-l-e-x-a-n-d-r-i-a:
EVERYTHING I SEE IS A LIE
MY LIFE HAS BEEN RUINED
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Cool! Thanks for alerting me to that. I have some real-world stuff going on that is getting in the way of Tumblring, so I appreciate the pointer. Have fun in Switzerland!
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Виктор Быков /Bykov Victor
Viktor Bykov is a Russian painter living in the general vicinity of Moscow. He studied at the Cheliabinsk Art College and the Stroganov Art and Design Institute in Moscow.
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More photos of Pine Creek Canyon and the associated lateral glacial moraines:
Top: Ron Wolf, Moraines and Pine Creek Canyon
Bottom: Geotripper, The Other California: A Gorge Deeper Than Grand Canyon
I googled for additional info (and better photos) of that glacial moraine just northwest of Bishop. If you’re into geology, the Eastern Sierra along US 395 is kind of ridiculous. It’s all there: Volcanoes of various sorts, mountain building, glaciers, fossilized streambeds, 450-million-year-old roof pendants…
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A Filbert weevil (Curculio occidentis). Collected from a Live Oak tree (acorn pictured) in Knowland Park, Oakland, California, USA
(photo: Kaldari)
What a cutie.
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Fangirl (Excerpt) by Rainbow Rowell:
Oh look: An excerpt.
Side note: As a longtime Wikipedia editor (less-so lately), why is Wikipedia fictionalized into a clearly recognizable not-Wikipedia analog when it appears in YA fiction? Or for that matter, I suppose, why does Harry Potter become obvious not-HP?
Presumably it’s a legal thing?
Just wondering, not actually ranting.
On with the excerpt.
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September 2013 LibraryReads List:
With _Fangirl_at #1.
Just send me the file already, Amazon.
Sigh.
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Okay. I literally get it now.
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Park Sheridan, Early 90’s version. I imagine he still listens to The Cure quite a bit.
Inspired by some comments by Rainbow Rowell the other day on twitter about the hypothetical Eleanor & Park sequel.
Oh how quickly my resolve to draw other things has disappeared…
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