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Amarante, Portugal

The sky full of coldness

“IMG_0247” (2008)

The Santa Catalinas bathed in the glow of the setting sun as seen from the Campus Farm neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona.

Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Garden, Kauai

23MM F2

At high, dry altitudes, fields of snow transform into rows of narrow, blade-like formations as tall as 2 meters. Known as penitentes – due to their similarity to kneeling worshipers – these surreal snow sculptures form primarily due to solar reflection. Surrounded by dry air and intense sunlight, the snow tends to sublimate directly into water vapor rather than melt into water. This turns an initially flat snowfield into one randomly dotted with little depressions. The curved surface of those depressions helps reflect incoming sunlight, causing the indentations to grow deeper and deeper over time. Although the high Andes are best known for their penitentes, they form elsewhere as well. Recent work has even identified them on Pluto! (Image credit: G. Hüdepohl; research credit: M. Betterton)

Sneakernight - Vanessa Hudgens

Busan, South Korea

Two Jack Morning by Cole Chase Photography on Flickr.

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— Charlotte Bronte (b. 21 April 1816)

“The Living Forest”

There are never too many by ~Orain-seinn

Duke University Campus, arches and doorway