Traffic cones are cool, they don’t eat things that die screaming 🙃#vegantrafficcone #trafficcone #conelyfe #conelove #trafficcones #trafficconesofinstagram #trafficconeaesthetics #heretherebecones #heretherebetrafficcones #fluorescence #safetycones #safety #roadcone #roadconeporn #roadcones #govegan #vegan (at Cockeysville, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVnysJgLXc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tlk2q3fsee4b

“A fountain modeled after Thomas Kalide’s of a boy and a swan, the boy shown standing conceling his eyes from the sun with his left hand, his right hand around the neck of a swan shown stretching and looking upwards with its wings unfurled. The group is a replica of Kalide's famous life size bronze fountain group executed in 1836 for the gardens at Pfaueninsel in Berlin. Though adaptation is a common enough necessity for sculptors such as Kalide and his contemporaries it is rarely discussed that some believe this artwork was originally intended to be not of a boy with a swan but a boy with a traffic cone. This is fitting since collectors such as Prince Albert and Queen Victoria often found safety cones to be fascinating objects in the 1850s, the decade in which they received this fountain which, unbeknownst to them was originally meant to be a traffic cone.” #trafficcone #conelyfe #conelove #trafficcones #trafficconesofinstagram #trafficconeaesthetics #heretherebecones #heretherebetrafficcones #fluorescence #safetycones #safety #roadcone #roadconeporn #roadcones #thomaskalide (at Ladew Topiary Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu391_-gmrG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19xln6boy39vy

”There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light. Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Inside Information #trafficcone #conelyfe #conelove #trafficcones #trafficconesofinstagram #trafficconeaesthetics #tolkein #smaug #thehobbit #dragons #heretherebecones #heretherebetrafficcones #fluorescence #safetycones #safety #roadcone #roadconeporn #roadcones (at Mount Vernon, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buw2rOvAVe4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kg1f22iya7rb

It can seem like that which comes to you often and unbidden is always the slow, the drudgery, the flavorless sludge of menial tasks; when your days seem full of anxious anticipations of the dream-realizations with which we all long to have our tomorrows filled. It is exhausting, traversing the sludge, walking through the molasses parts of what can seem to overly fill our lives. Of what use are they? What solace can be found when we find ourselves inescapably sunk within these pits? It is through survival, sunken as we may feel, that we touch the sublime; the limitless, the infinite, the traffic cone within, to which we are beholden. For it is through being a safety cone for our fellows that we validate our experience of the gooey, of the tar pits. For in usefulness to the greater traffic cone that shaped the earth by serving our fellow cones we come to find the peace that makes our fluorescence shine all the brighter. #trafficcone #conelyfe #conelove #trafficcones #trafficconesofinstagram #trafficconeaesthetics #tarpits #gooey #tar #goo #fluorescence #safetycones #safety #servicetoothers (at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuhdEVNgTtK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b29grpnmz6mf

It’s a crazy time. Winter storms. National emergencies. Valentine’s Day clearance sale withdrawals. Political corruption. It’s always good to be reminded of your roots. Of what’s really important. Like taking pictures of traffic cones. I’ve been out of the #conespotting scene for some time now but that’s what’s beautiful about traffic cones. Even when you’re used up, missing some parts, and soot covers your letters you’re still a traffic cone where it matters. #trafficcone #conelyfe #conelove #trafficcones #trafficconesofinstagram #trafficconeaesthetics (at Alexandria, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuH3YpaAmNH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1inb6xai0i3sa

#conelyfe Cora definitely hates the cone, I can’t blame her, but she is doing really well regardless. She has been playing with her toys and running around like normal. #coratheeskie #conehead #americaneskimodog #dogsofinstagram