Vagamundo

Cemetery in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Flickr

“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

Sandhill cranes find a mate around two years of age and stay with that one mate for the duration of their lives. Courtship rituals may be observed with patience and good timing, for which you may be rewarded with shows of dancing that includes jumping, running, and wing flapping. Males are larger than females, but external markings are identical. Sandhill cranes live to be older than most birds, some reaching 20 years old which makes their monogamous pairing even more significant.”

Portree, United Kingdom by Agnieszka Mordaunt

Illustration from Pierre Louÿs’ Les Chansons de Bilitis by Georges Barbier (1922)

Norwood Hodge MacGilvary (1874-1949), Birth of an idea, c. 1920