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Shigeo Anzai / Isamu Noguchi’s grave in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, 1989
"Afternoon Slumber", Japan. Photography by Jumy-M
HOAs are often barriers to sustainable landscaping and solar energy – here’s how they could be bridges instead
HOAs are often barriers to sustainable landscaping and solar energy – here’s how they could be bridges instead
Climate change, biodiversity loss and water conservation are often framed as problems in need of national policies. However, there is an often more important level of governance: the neighborhood.
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woodblock print, published in the fourth month of 1857, is a celebrated landscape masterpiece from the crowning late-career series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (Meisho Edo Hyakkei) by the immortal ukiyo-e titan Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858).
Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Apparition, 1959
David Hockney, The arrival of spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 – 31 May, No. 1 (900). iPad drawing printed on 6 sheets of paper.
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #OverTheRainbow, any bird looking skyward. Alt #HedgingYourBets, any bird in a hedge or bush. What the heck! Going with the Alt theme too. Threading the needle to find Ms. Rufous Hummingbird in the shrubbery! #birds #becurious 🪶
August arrives in the dark we are not even asleep and it is here how can it be so late all at once -WS Merwin, Nocturne II from The Shadow of Sirius #everynightapoem
Study in textures and reflections: still life with porcelain bowl and nautilus cup, painted in 1660 by Willem Kalf. Today was his day.
It's the fun time of year when the hummingbird moths appear! This one is a Hummingbird Clearwing. They are moths that hover while sipping nectar, with Bee Balm being one of their favorite flowers.
The fetishistic allure of the exotic, perfectly represented in Willem Kalf's amazing global still-life paintings, here from 1662. Today is his day.
2/2 Another still life of luxury & exoticism in 1645. By Willem Kalf, who celebrated global material culture before it had a name.
Fascism thrives in contradictions: COVID was a hoax that never hurt anybody. It's also a terrible pandemic and Fauci must be held responsible. The COVID vaccine killed millions. MRNA vaccines are a crime against humanity. Also Trump invented the COVID vaccine and must be credited for it.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoNew, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Bell in ShuriCastle, Shuri-jo, Okinawa, Japan. Photography by J. Watters of Rogue Images
Broad-nosed is unbe-weevil-ably photogenic!🤎 (Subfamily Entiminae)
A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk showing off the feathery pantaloons with their pattern of small brown hearts.
