♀♀ slender aphrodite overcame me

Remember to love the soil.

We always try to follow the basic tenets of farming naturally:

• shield - the soil from light and heat by growing plants and/or using mulch

• do not disturb! let it be, and try to plough / till / dig or churn it as little as possible

• diversify - the bigger the variety of plant, fungi and bacterial life in the soil, the better the biology will function

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

💙 Delft Blooms 💙 I had such a blast designing this!

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

My english is not fluent in this time , but i am glad to see all of you and i happy when i saw yours artworks too.

The illustration below the post is my lastest work. My inspiration are the myth and the moon. The moon are both of full shining and hidden in earth shadow. This is a nature for everything in the universe.

I hope my heart still hang on to fight to see the glory in art world.

I honestly can't believe Laika doesn't have her own Wookieepedia page. She's in the background of every scene! the ultimate glup shitto

bonus:

My biggest pattern to date, Nature's Journey! It was so fun to do all of these little motifs for this pattern 🌿

Day 20- MerMay2026

It’s all right. It’s okay. It’s fine. We’re all okay.

Kate O’Flynn & Jeff Hiller