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Rhodes & Symi (2) (3) (4) by d0gwalker

Via Flickr:

(1) These tiles surround the base of a fountain in Evraion Martyron Square in Rhodes Town. The top of the fountain features three seahorses. (2) Rejep Pasha mosque was built in 1588 but is now in poor condition. (3) This mosque was built for Sultan Mustafa III in 1765. It is adjacent to the Turkish baths. (4) Detail of carving in Hospital of the Knights of St John Museum.    

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Juvenile red-tailed hawk. Arapahoe County, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

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a sunbathing Northern Barred-Woodcreeper 

Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae

Sarapiqui, Heredia, CR

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VICTORIAN TURKEY CARPET UPHOLSTERED CHESTERFIELD SOFA

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Lyon and Turnbull

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won't you be my otter half? 🦦❤️🧡💛

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Mirko Hanák (Czech ,1921-1971)

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forest oddity (postcard, c1970s)

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Whelks

by Mary Oliver

Here are the perfect fans of the scallops, quahogs, and weedy mussels still holding their orange fruit -- and here are the whelks -- whirlwinds, each the size of a fist, but always cracked and broken -- clearly they have been traveling under the sky-blue waves for a long time. All my life I have been restless -- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss -- than wholeness -- than staying at home. I have not been sure what it is. But every morning on the wide shore I pass what is perfect and shining to look for the whelks, whose edges have rubbed so long against the world they have snapped and crumbled -- they have almost vanished, with the last relinquishing of their unrepeatable energy, back into everything else. When I find one I hold it in my hand, I look out over that shanking fire, I shut my eyes. Not often, but now and again there’s a moment when the heart cries aloud: yes, I am willing to be that wild darkness, that long, blue body of light.

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03/14/22

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Chen Danqing (Chinese, b. 1953), Leather Shoes, 1990. Oil on paper, 40.8 x 50.9 cm.

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And it turns out that she doesn't want to be a teacher, or a scholar, or a librarian, or an editor, or to make television documentaries, or review books, or write articles. The list of things that she doesn't want to do is as long as your arm. Apparently she wants to do what she does—read, and go for walks, eat and drink with pleasure, tolerate some company. And unless people can value this about her—her withdrawals, her severe indolence (she has an air of indolence even when she's cooking an excellent dinner for thirty people)—they don't remain among the company she tolerates.

– Alice Munro, from “Oranges and Apples,” Friend of My Youth: Stories (Vintage, 1991)

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spalted wood - discoloured patterns in the wood that occur naturally when an infestation of fungus colonise a tree and extract nutrients from it, leaving behind a map of their battlefield

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ended the 2-month-long health scare with amazing news and then immediately came home to a $51 parking ticket and a broken A/C

#obviously would take those things over the other thing any day but gosh we can't catch a break #now to try to figure out how to not live like there's a mouse trap above my head at all times #bea's thoughts

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textures and colors of the bark of Methuselah the coast redwood

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Red Prowfish (Pataecus fronto), family Pataecidae, order Scorpaeniformes, found in the coastal waters of western and southern Australia

photograph by JW Turnbull

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