Susie Bone-Breaker

rhamphotheca: iseegodinbirds:themagicfarawayttree: Fly Geyser,...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:29:49 -0500

iseegodinbirds:themagicfarawayttree: Fly Geyser, Washoe Co., NV, USA

This is now on my to do list since it is in my state. This is so pretty.

… The Geyser is not an entirely natural phenomenon, and was accidentally created in 1916 during well drilling. The well functioned normally for several decades, but in the 1960s geothermally heated water found a weak spot in the wall and began escaping to the surface. Dissolved minerals started rising and accumulating, creating the mount on which the geyser sits, which continues growing. Today water is constantly spewing, reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) in the air… (Wikipedia)

koreantrilobites: Impatiens capensis

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:55:17 -0500

koreantrilobites:

Impatiens capensis

mimi cabell: From e-flux journal issue 40

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 09:54:54 -0500

mimi cabell: From e-flux journal issue 40:

mimicabell:

After an all-night conversation with an old friend, you are ready to start the revolution together. But the next day, discussing the finer points over breakfast you realize, no, it’s impossible—in fact, this friend is actually a fascist. Their sentiment is right but the strategies could be…

“Now is the time to look carefully at a work by Yoko Ono from 1966 entitled Play it by Trust—a chessboard on which all chess pieces are the same color. To play the game, you must play together, but to what end? Forward movement becomes completely confusing after leaving the safe harbor of a single side. You must play the game using what may be your opponent’s pieces, without any sense of direction. There is a new sense of stasis, but in fact you are exhausted from making moves all the time. Historical progress and political movement continue on the board, but in order to play together with an Islamist, a US president, a hipster, a museum director, an oligarch, a techno-libertarian, an artist, a budget-cutting bureaucrat, or a thousand facebook friends, you must look deeply into the opponent’s eyes as they look into yours, and try to understand: What is actually at stake in this strange new game?”

Photo

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:13:36 -0500

jephjacques: onlytowardschaos: I started out clicking...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:46:19 -0500

jephjacques:

onlytowardschaos:

I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.

biancavirina:

CLICK THE SQUARES.

THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.

THIS THIS THIS THIS!

Throwing away all of my instruments and replacing them with this

Knit Cap Papaver rhoeas May 2012

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:43:00 -0400

Knit Cap

Papaver rhoeas

May 2012

explosionsoflife: This adorable spider is commonly known as the...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:37:21 -0400

explosionsoflife:

This adorable spider is commonly known as the Peacock Jumping Spider (Maratus volans), for obvious reasons. Similar to actual peacocks, male peacock spiders raise a colorful flap on their abdomens to garner female attention. Also common among this species is a sort of spider polygamy where male peacock spiders court multiple females at once.

I dare you to tell me you hate spiders.

scientificillustration: n117_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:36:40 -0400

scientificillustration:

n117_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Little known fact: urchins are some of my favorite animals (along with opossums, sloths and sphingid moths)

dreamssoreal: Aristolochia grandiflora from Edward’s Botanical...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:33:09 -0400

dreamssoreal:

Aristolochia grandiflora from Edward’s Botanical Register, 1836

yes. definitely, yes.

fullbloom: (via The Four Seasons on the Behance...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:31:46 -0400

fullbloom:

(via The Four Seasons on the Behance Network)

beautiful

rhamphotheca: prettybirds: Green Heron (Butorides...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:30:41 -0400

rhamphotheca:

prettybirds: Green Heron (Butorides virescens)

amazing portrait and i want whatever lens this photographer is using.

scientificillustration: n104_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:29:19 -0400

scientificillustration:

n104_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

De corporibus marinis lapidescentibus quæ defossa reperiuntur /.
Romæ, :Ex typographia linguarum oridentalium Angeli Rotilii, et Philippi Bacchelli in ædibus maximorum.,1752..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39707038

I love a good echinoderm.

Papaver rhoeas May 2012

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:39:39 -0400

Papaver rhoeas

May 2012

dendroica: Death’s Head Sphinx Moth by BioDivLibrary on...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:38:04 -0400

dendroica:

Death’s Head Sphinx Moth by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

De natuurlyke historie der insecten;.
Te Haarlem,By C. H. Bohn en H. de Wit, boekverkoopers[1764-68].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6961658

eff yeah! SPHINGIDAE!

rhamphotheca: Wild Wonders of Europe Online Photo Competition -...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:15:17 -0400

rhamphotheca:

Wild Wonders of Europe Online Photo Competition - 2010/11

* Grand Prize Winner Adult *

“ORUGA DE PLUMAS”, Avila, Spain by Jose Luis Rodriguez, Spain

A group of European Bee-eaters on a branch on a frosty morning in May. Photographed from the car with a 500mm lens.

(via: wild-wonders.com)

rhamphotheca: somewhere, there’s a forest calling your name…

Wed, 30 May 2012 16:24:00 -0400

rhamphotheca:

somewhere, there’s a forest calling your name…

staceythinx: Science is lovely in silk (at least it is in the...

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:29:19 -0400

staceythinx:

Science is lovely in silk (at least it is in the hands of Karen Kamenetzky).

Kamenetzky on her work:

I dye, paint and stitch cottons and silks to create boldly colored wallhangings inspired by microscopic/cellular imagery - a kind of visual invented biology with textiles. I find this imagery metaphorically rich since all change fundamentally happens on this infinitesimal level.

buggirl: madamsalami: My #spoonflower fabric swatches came...

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:08:15 -0400

buggirl:

madamsalami:

My #spoonflower fabric swatches came back today and they are rather lovely, even if I do say so myself.

LOVE this

AAAHHHHH, i would upholster my whole house in this

look at her blue eyes

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:26:19 -0400

look at her blue eyes

scientificillustration: n33_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on...

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:25:48 -0400

scientificillustration:

n33_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

May is the month for lanternflies apparently… they are also the May photo on my calendar