Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

(inaturalist)

The Hug Ring by Richard & Bec

Studio Ghibli + Butterflies

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

The Kiss (1908) by Gustav Klimt

Bumblebee on Lenten rose flower, Helleborus

Diego Maradona, USSR, 1990

MICHAEL OLISE during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Group I match between France and Senegal on June 16, 2026 — Photo by Geoff Lowe

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

photograph by Ashley McConnell/USFWS

ramp butter

Regions left to right: Bethlehem, Lower Galilee, Al Faluja (depopulated village near Gaza), Beit Dajan (depopulated village 3miles south of Jaffa), Ramallah, Bethlehem

Oman 1972, Bruno Barbey.

2010-05-21

THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME ‘在那河畔青草青’ dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

Derbent is one of the oldest cities of the world. It is believed to be 5, 000 years old. Carpets are hanging on wall of Derbent Fortress. The Fortifications of Derbent (also transcribed as Darband) are one of the fortified defense lines built by the Persian Sasanian Empire to protect the eastern passage of the Caucasus Mountains (the "Caspian Gates") against the attacks of the nomadic peoples of the Pontic–Caspian steppe.