mankind, be vigilant

[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

Serge Wolf was ready with his camera when he spotted a northern harrier bird of prey getting up close and personal with a black bear sleeping on a hay bale in a field near Salmon Valley. 

Portugal. Porto. A barco rabelo carries Porto wine down the Douro river. 1985. Bruno Barbey.  

©Игорь Шпиленок

birds flying over the jurassic canyon of Iceland

Photograph: Jalil Rezayee

Andrés Cerpa, The Vault

[Edit: this post is 10 years old and just recently gained a lot of attention. I had no idea the links were broken. You can find an article about the artist here.]

Marie Howe, in an interview with BOMB Magazine

Julie Cockburn

Coptic textile, 6th - 10th century.

今年も道すがら赤い彼岸花はお目にかかりましたが、あまり見たことのなかった白花にも数回遭遇しました。しかしまさか10月に入ってから見ることができるとは！

Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III; 14th century BC

Sean Thomas Dougherty, from “The Men and the Quiet”