there once was

— from Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

Life Saving Patrol by Edward Moran

Shimabuku: Sea and Flowers (2013)

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

HEATHERS (1988)

-Vladimir Lenin

(1) A large colony of Atlantic Puffins breed on the grassy slopes above the sea cliffs on the Storhofdi peninsula at the south end of Heimaey Island. A small hut located halfway up the slope on the left side of the photo is a puffin viewing stand, where we will have an opportunity to see the birds up close. On gray cloudy days such as this, the birds are more likely to remain on shore rather than spend the day out at sea feeding, thus giving us the opportunity to see them in great numbers.     

Prints

OSPAAAL: Organization of Solidarity with People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, 70s posters

Discover the Striking World of Yuka Mannami’s Contemporary Fashion Portraits

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

in Maine sheep are released on offshore Islands in spring to graze for summer. With no natural predators on these islands sheep thrive. To be corralled up and brought back to the mainland in early fall.