An Ecstacy of Fumbling

The Beta Band - Dry The Rain

© Guy Bourdin

Penda's Fen (1974), dir. Alan Clarke

Fossil diatoms retain their intricately patterned glassy silica shell cases. Called frustules, these may be either rounded or elongated. Living diatoms are single-celled, algae-like protists. They make up much of the plankton in the marine and freshwater food chains. Their shells accumulate by the millions on the seafloor, eventually fossilizing to form a siliceous sedimentary rock called diatomite.

♡ mullet appreciation post ♡

Forward somersault. Swimming scientifically taught. 1912. 

Study of Dante holding the hand of Love for the painting Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Madison County, Montana, 1939